Syrian site 'resembled reactor'

[uppityperson]

Source: BBC

A Syrian site bombed by Israel last year had features resembling those of a nuclear reactor site, the UN nuclear watchdog says in a report. But the International Atomic Energy Agency did not exclude the possibility the site was being used for purposes unrelated to nuclear activity.

In the first report on its findings in Syria, the IAEA said "significant" quantities of uranium were also found. Syria has always maintained the site was a disused military building. Israeli warplanes flattened the facility in the Syrian desert in September 2007 on suspicion that it was part of a covert nuclear weapons programme.

IAEA inspectors visited the bombed al-Kibar site in June, where they took samples that appear to have contained the radioactive material, but Damascus has blocked any follow-up trips. According to the confidential report, a copy of which was obtained by the BBC, Syria says the uranium found there was residue from the Israeli missiles used in the air-raid.

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But a senior official close to the IAEA said the type of uranium found was not that usually found in munitions. ...(more @ link)

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7738292.stm

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What. The. Fuck? "resembles"? Good lord.

[pampango]

1. It sounds like the building looked like a reactor and that significant quantities of uranium

were found by the IAEA that were not from any munitions that Israel used to destroy the building.

"While it cannot be excluded that the building in question was intended for non-nuclear use, the features of the building, along with the connectivity of the site to adequate pumping capacity of cooling water, are similar to what may be found in connection with a reactor site," said the IAEA report, sent to its 35-nation board of governors ahead of a meeting next week."

"It added that IAEA inspectors had found "a significant number of natural uranium particles" in environmental samples taken from the site." Sounds like the building not only resembled a reactor, but used uranium like a reactor, too.

[HopeHoops]

2. Apparently wedding parties in Iraq and Afghanistan resemble terrorist enclaves too.

[Alamuti Lotus]

3. And Israeli nuclear plants and bombs resemble........A POTATO