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| IAEA finds more uranium, graphite at Syria site |
| 2009-02-20 |
| U.N. inspectors found graphite and more uranium traces in test samples taken from a Syrian site Washington says was a covert graphite nuclear reactor almost built before Israel bombed it in 2007, it emerged on Thursday. The first word that graphite particles had turned up came with the release of the International Atomic Energy Agency's second report on Syria in three months. But U.N. officials familiar with it said the IAEA inquiry remained inconclusive. Still, one senior U.N. official said the discovery of additional uranium traces was "significant". That, together with graphite traces that are undergoing more tests, raised pressure on Damascus to provide evidence for its denials of wrongdoing. The IAEA's November report said the site bore features that would resemble those of an undeclared nuclear reactor. Thursday's report said Damascus, in a letter to the IAEA this month, had repeated its position that the desert complex destroyed by Israel, known as al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, in September 2007 was a conventional military building only. But Syria, it said, was still failing to back up its stance with documentation or by granting further access for IAEA sleuths to the bombed location and three others cited in U.S. intelligence handed to the U.N. watchdog last year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 But Syria, it said, was still failing to back up its stance with documentation... They still want us to beleive that Israel's target was just a storehouse for BABY DOC ASSAD'S gourmet Hummus? Yeah, right... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2009-02-20 19:23 |
| #3 I don't know, but, it sounds like the letter to the IAEA was the truth. Aren't nuclear weapons facilities conventionally in military buildings? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-02-20 11:03 |
| #2 Undoubtedly it was for peaceful purposes. Shame on those Israelis! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-02-20 09:50 |
| #1 Damascus, in a letter to the IAEA this month, had repeated its position that the desert complex destroyed by Israel, known as al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, in September 2007 was a conventional military building only. Probably a "Uranium R' Us" store. IAEA sleuths HAHAHAHAHA... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-20 09:24 |