Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saddam Hussein secretly communicated with him in 1998 to stave off worries about a possible Iraqi attack on Israel. Netanyahu said Wednesday it was thought at the time that Saddam might launch a missile attack on Israel, as he had done during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, because of tensions over U.N. weapons inspections.
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