UN nuke team to inspect bombed Syria site

[Liberator13]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080622/wl_afp/syrianuclearpoliticsiaea

DAMASCUS (AFP) - Senior UN atomic experts are set to begin a three-day visit to Syria on Sunday to inspect a mysterious site bombed by Israel last year amid US allegations that it was a nuclear facility.

The team led by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) deputy chief Olli Heinonen left Vienna in the morning but there was no immediate indication in Damascus about their arrival as Syria kept the visit under tight wraps.

The United States claims, which it says are based on intelligence and photographic evidence, that the Al-Kibar site attacked by Israel in September was a nuclear facility built with North Korean help and close to becoming operational.

But Syria has denied the allegations and said Al-Kibar was a disused military building, although Damascus has fed suspicion by wiping clean the site in a move certain to make the IAEA inspection more difficult.



This should make for a very 'explosive' week in politics.

[Jordan]

It really bothers me that this didn't make more headlines then it should have.

I hope we get some clear answers out of this unusual situation, or usual depending on which side you're on.

[Dayve]

I doubt they'll find anything other than an old military bunker that once housed shells and ammo.

What you must remember is that Israel and the USA do all they can to make sure the world keeps believing this axis of evil exists and wants to destroy Israel; it's very good for the two nations.

Of course, what they actually find and what they say they found will most likely be two different things. I'm sure there are some higher-ups who have already prepared a speech before the investigations even begin, and i'm sure they've got plenty of money to make sure that speech is the one we hear in the final report.

[delldell]

I doubt they'll find anything other than an old military bunker that once housed shells and ammo.

And you say this why? Why would Israel risk a war with Syria, Iran and Lebanon over such a target?



What you must remember is that Israel and the USA do all they can to make sure the world keeps believing this axis of evil exists and wants to destroy Israel; it's very good for the two nations.


Syria and Iran don't want to destroy Israel? Why do you say this? What does Israel and the US gain from such a belief?


Of course, what they actually find and what they say they found will most likely be two different things. I'm sure there are some higher-ups who have already prepared a speech before the investigations even begin, and i'm sure they've got plenty of money to make sure that speech is the one we hear in the final report.

Riiiiight....and thats based on the false claims that WMDs have been found in Iraq? Why wasn't this done?