http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=92585US presses IAEA to search for nuclear sites in Syria
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Friday, May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON: The United States is pressing UN inspectors to broaden a search for secret nuclear sites in Syria to check if it has other hidden facilities beyond an alleged reactor destroyed by Israel, The Washington Post reported Thursday. US officials have given information on three suspect sites to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, which is negotiating with Syria for permission to conduct inspections in the country, the Post said, citing US government officials and Western diplomats.
US officials want to know if the suspect sites were support facilities for the alleged Al-Kibar reactor, which Washington says was built with North Korean help, the daily said.
Officials declined to describe the suspect sites or discuss how they were identified, the newspaper said.
Western governments have long wanted to identify possible locations for a facility in Syria that might have supplied fuel rods for a reactor, it said.
The Al-Kibar site, while described as nearly operational when it was bombed, had no clear source of uranium fuel needed for operation, the Post said, citing US intelligence officials and diplomats familiar with the site.
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Thanks Diane for suggesting that maybe the IAEA needs to be notified FIRST before we go in and bomb them
Its the courteous thing to do Oh and by the way inform the Intel committee of Congress please first
it would be Nice to know if we are declaring war on a country
rather than find out from News agencies we helped in the bombing of Syria
Congress is the last to know these days
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