Syria refuses inspections of attack site
OFFICIALS SUSPECT NUCLEAR PROGRAM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 22, 2008

VIENNA, Austria — A senior Syrian official on Friday all but ruled out new visits by U.N. inspectors probing allegations that his country had a covert program that could be used to make nuclear weapons.

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Syrian refusal to allow inspections could doom the International Atomic Energy Agency’s efforts to follow up U.S. assertions that a site bombed by Israel last year was a nearly finished reactor that could have produced plutonium.

Syria allowed the agency to visit the site near the desert town of Al Kibar in June but has since turned down requests for more inspections.

An agency report this week heightened concerns about Al Kibar, saying that satellite imagery and other evidence showed it had the characteristics of a nuclear reactor.


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