Syria will not allow UN watchdog to check nuclear sites

[henank]

Syria has told fellow Arab countries that it will not permit an International Atomic Energy Agency probe to extend beyond a site bombed by Israel, despite agency interest in three other suspect locations, diplomats told The Associated Press Tuesday.

The agency's main focus on its planned June 22-24 visit to Syria is a building in the country's remote eastern desert that was destroyed in September by Israeli jets.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced Monday that Syria had agreed to an agency check of US assertions that the target was a plutonium-producing reactor that was near completion, and thus at the stage where it could generate the fissile material for nuclear arms.

But the agency is also interested in following up on information that Syria may have three other undeclared atomic facilities. Diplomats and a nuclear expert told the AP Monday that at least one of the sites is believed to be meant to reprocess nuclear material into the fissile core of warheads.

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[Vegasaurus]

1. These nations are all getting nukes, or trying to

and they all want Israel gone.

It's going to be major mushroom clouds when this occurs, which it absolutely will.

[notfullofit]

2. This is getting

ominous.

Can it all be put down to nothing but 'rhetoric'?

Perhaps they view Olmert as a wussie, all bark and no bite..
Perhaps Israel needs a Netanyahu after all.
I certainly do hope not.

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