Syria's foreign minister on Monday repeated his country's denials that a site bombed by Israel last year was a nascent nuclear reactor but said he wished his country had such a program to counter Israel's nuclear might.
U.N. nuclear inspectors visited the site in northern Syria last week to investigate U.S. allegations that Syria was hiding elements of a potential nuclear arms program.
Olli Heinonen, a deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he was satisfied with what was achieved on the four-day trip but that "there is still work that needs to be done" in following up on the claims.
Syrian authorities imposed a virtual news blackout on the inspectors' trip, and few details of the visit have surfaced beyond the fact that Syrian authorities allowed the three-man inspecting team to visit the Al Kibar site, which Israeli jets targeted in September. Syria has said the site was a non-nuclear military facility.
"As a Syrian citizen, I think that had Syria had such a secret program, it wouldn't have allowed inspectors to visit the site....This is logic," Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said at a joint news conference in Damascus with his Norwegian counterpart, Jonas Gahr Stoere.
If that’s the case, please explain these pictures, which show a nuclear reactor being built?
http://www.rightwinglunatic.com/2008/04/syrian-vows-to-cooperate-with-iaea-over.html
Also, please explain to me your recent denial of unfettered access to ALL facilities that the IAEA has requested?
Yeah…didn’t think so.
Travis
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