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War report blasts Israeli PM for 'failure'
Tuesday May 01, 2007

An Israeli government commission on Monday accused Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of "serious failure" in the Lebanon war but he refused to step down despite the blow to his flagging leadership.

Reading from partial findings of an investigation, retired judge Eliyahu Winograd held Olmert, Defence Minister Amir Peretz and former chief of staff Dan Halutz principally responsible for the failings of last summer's conflict.

"If each or anyone of those would have acted better, the decisions and the results of the war would have been different or better," Winograd said of the war that began after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on July 12.