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UN atomic watchdog to investigate claims of secret Syrian reactor

by Sanjay Jha | June 2, 2008 at 11:42 pm

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After a long time Syria has allowed UN weapons inspector to investigate about US claim of secretly building a nuclear reactor. American government had been claiming that Syria is involved in setting up nuclear reactor and even released some pics in this regard. American is always hostile to Syria because of its support to terrorist organisation Hamas.

UN inspectors are to visit Syria to investigate claims by the US that a secret nuclear reactor was being built on a remote site that was bombed by Israel last year, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said yesterday.
Diplomats said it was unclear whether the inspectors would be allowed on the al-Kibar site. If they are, the IAEA is likely to shed new light on an episode that remains shrouded in mystery, with flat denials from Damascus, uncharacteristic silence from Israel and US insistence that the facility was being built by North Korea - which also denies any involvement.
If the UN team is not allowed on the site it will add to the suspicion that President Bashar al-Assad has something to hide. "I look forward to Syria's full cooperation in this matter," ElBaradei told a Vienna meeting of the IAEA's board of governors, adding: "We are treating this information with the seriousness it deserves."