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April 24th, 2008, 09:11 PM
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April 25, 2008
SYRIA'S ambassador to the United States has dismissed the White House's claim today that North Korea had helped it build a nuclear reactor as a "ridiculous story".
Imad Moustapha said on CNN that he had been called into the US State Department today, where officials "told me a ridiculous story about an alleged Syria nuclear project".
He said they showed him "ridiculous satellite-taken photographs of a building in the Syrian desert, saying this is a nuclear reactor".
"I had to remind them that it is on one hand preposterous. And on the other hand there is something silly about this. Not a single security guard. No barbed wire," the ambassador said.
He added: "It's just photographs of vacant buildings".
The White House publicly accused North Korea today of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor able to produce plutonium and said the facility was "not intended for peaceful purposes".
Spokeswoman Dana Perino said the reactor was "damaged beyond repair" on September 6, 2007 - the date of a mysterious Israeli air strike in Syria - and demanded Damascus "come clean" on its nuclear activities...
photos, story:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...-23109,00.html
SYRIA'S ambassador to the United States has dismissed the White House's claim today that North Korea had helped it build a nuclear reactor as a "ridiculous story".
Imad Moustapha said on CNN that he had been called into the US State Department today, where officials "told me a ridiculous story about an alleged Syria nuclear project".
He said they showed him "ridiculous satellite-taken photographs of a building in the Syrian desert, saying this is a nuclear reactor".
"I had to remind them that it is on one hand preposterous. And on the other hand there is something silly about this. Not a single security guard. No barbed wire," the ambassador said.
He added: "It's just photographs of vacant buildings".
The White House publicly accused North Korea today of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor able to produce plutonium and said the facility was "not intended for peaceful purposes".
Spokeswoman Dana Perino said the reactor was "damaged beyond repair" on September 6, 2007 - the date of a mysterious Israeli air strike in Syria - and demanded Damascus "come clean" on its nuclear activities...
photos, story:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...-23109,00.html
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February 17 2005
Iran and Syria confront US with defence pact
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/17/usa.syria
Iran and Syria confront US with defence pact
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/17/usa.syria
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Sep 19, 2007
...Two weeks after Israel's alleged bombing raid in Syria, which some foreign reports said targeted North Korean nuclear material, the UN's nuclear watchdog elected Syria as deputy chairman of its General Conference on Monday...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull
...Two weeks after Israel's alleged bombing raid in Syria, which some foreign reports said targeted North Korean nuclear material, the UN's nuclear watchdog elected Syria as deputy chairman of its General Conference on Monday...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull
