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Last update - 09:10 29/05/2008 Report: U.S. urges UN to find secret nuclear facilities in Syria By Reuters Tags: Syria, Nuclear, Israel, UN The United States is pressing United Nations inspectors to broaden the scope of a search in Syria to include possible secret nuclear facilities, The Washington Post reported in Thursday editions, citing U.S. government officials and Western diplomats. At least three sites have been identified by U.S. officials and passed along to UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the newspaper reported. U.S. government officials declined to describe the specific sites that have drawn interest or to discuss how they were identified, it said. Advertisement Citing unnamed sources, the Post said U.S. officials want to know if the suspected sites may have been support facilities for the alleged Al Kibar reactor destroyed in an Israel Air Force strike last September. Syria maintains the facility targeted by the IAF was a disused military building in its eastern desert that had no nuclear link. It has yet to accept a request from the IAEA to visit the site. Israel is believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal. The United States and other Western governments have long been interested in identifying possible locations for a facility in Syria that might have supplied nuclear fuel rods for a Syrian reactor, the Post said. Although the Al Kibar facility was described as almost completed when it was bombed, it had no clear source of the uranium fuel necessary for operation, the paper said, citing U.S. intelligence officials and diplomats. CIA Director Michael Hayden told the newspaper that the intelligence community's insight into Syria's nuclear ambitions has deepened since the Israeli raid. "Do not assume that Al Kibar exhausted our knowledge of Syrian efforts with regard to nuclear weapons," Hayden said in an interview. "I am very comfortable - certainly with Al Kibar and what was there, and what the intent was." Bookmark to del.icio.us   His Majesty's envoy Report: Bahraini king taps Jewish woman lawmaker as envoy to U.S. Light unto the nations After five months of suspense, the hoopoe is crowned Israel's state bird.   1.   Syria should hire Mark Lincoln as their top nuclear consultant 08:11  |  S 29/05/08   2.   US should find another excuse ! 09:37  |  Lamboutchy 29/05/08   3.   Don`t tell the accused the charges against him 10:15  |  Rowan 29/05/08   4.   Iran and its servile ally Syria. 10:20  |  Jean Van Daem 29/05/08   5.   # 4 JVD 11:03  |  Vinegar Hill 29/05/08   6.   Lamboutchy - Cheap accusations 11:26  |  Michael Jacobs 29/05/08   7.   IAEA Should visit Dimona 12:08  |  matt 29/05/08   8.   Michael Jacob - Identify your enemy then fight them 12:21  |  Lamboutchy 29/05/08   9.   Alert the UN to the suspected Dimona site as well 12:28  |  Natallie Durson 29/05/08   10.   Act, if you want to survive 12:36  |  Gilad 29/05/08   11.   To all, United States lies 12:58  |  Sami 29/05/08   12.   Ah yes, the double standards of the USA are at it again 13:35  |  POP 29/05/08   13.   Quick! Quick! Find Something! Anything! 13:40  |  Johnboy 29/05/08   14.   question: actions for a nuke free ME 14:46  |  nuke-free 29/05/08   15.   ....PASSED ALONG TO THE UN 15:03  |  Robert 29/05/08   16.   U.S.,Syria,the UN and the nuclear dimension. 15:33  |  Ricardo Kolbe 29/05/08   17.   America`s Hypocracy and Double Standards 15:47  |  Cool B 29/05/08   18.   #2 Lambutchy 15:56  |  Abu Yusuf 29/05/08   19.   This is the same Syria whose leaders claim they want to have 15:58  |  Amihai 29/05/08   20.   #18: Abu Yusuf 16:15  |  Lamboutchy 29/05/08   21.   UN urges US to find Iraqi weapons of mass destruction 16:31  |  HA HA 29/05/08   22.   no wonder Olmert is rushing to give Golan back 16:43  |  tea man 29/05/08   23.   Lamboutchy - Cheap criticism 16:50  |  Michael Jacobs 29/05/08   24.   Ha....U.S. intelligence 16:57  |  Concerned individual 29/05/08   25.   Sami, you are a bit biased?? 17:05  |  royzer 29/05/08   26.   this is israeli lobby power talking 17:05  |  sam i am 29/05/08   27.   Michael Jacobs - Very Cheap Judgement 17:16  |  Lamboutchy 29/05/08   28.   #26: Sam - Shut Up 17:23  |  Lamboutchy 29/05/08   29.   israel never sign nuclear pact 17:24  |  ross 29/05/08   30.   to SAMI 17:25  |  chasaboy 29/05/08   31.   Israel is not a signatory to nuclear inspection 17:28  |  marc 29/05/08   32.   Funny that ML & Tosefta have vanished together, isn`t it? 18:01  |  x-ray 29/05/08   33.   Matt 18:04  |  x-ray 29/05/08   34.   I guess we are looking for mobile labs again 18:04  |  Greg 29/05/08   35.   Of course Saddam had WMD 18:11  |  x-ray 29/05/08   36.   Syria Nukes 18:13  |  Yusuf 29/05/08   37.   Yusuf of Syria 18:20  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 29/05/08   38.   Israel never signed NPT, why is Israel trying to enforce it? 18:25  |  Pablo B 29/05/08   39.   UN FINDS ISRAEL STRIKES, UN is servant of zionism 18:34  |  Tayfun_Turkey 29/05/08   40.   #38 - Okay, Pablo B... 18:40  |  Winner 29/05/08   41.   war this summer. goodbye iran, syria, hissy, hamarse. 18:42  |  frenz 29/05/08   42.   Yusuf the pretending arab!!!!! 18:47  |  IknowitALL 29/05/08   43.   Jean Van Daem - Hand Syria to Al Qaida? 18:50  |  Mark of Lewiston 29/05/08   44.   Sam too much green eggs and HAm 18:55  |  Dr Seuss 29/05/08   45.   Mak Lincoln, come on over here! Or stay out and don`t come back! 19:07  |  S 29/05/08   46.   Oh how nervous you are Lamboutchy 19:47  |  Johnny 29/05/08   47.   Lamboutchy - Friend or foe? 19:52  |  Michael Jacobs 29/05/08   48.   incredible leaps of thinking 19:57  |  peter 29/05/08   49.   Fair-minded 20:16  |  Deadly Zionist Dream 29/05/08   50.   Syria nukes 20:37  |  Gregor 29/05/08   51.   Mr. IknowitALL (nothing) why personal attack on Yususf? 20:55  |  Genuine Tosefta 29/05/08   52.   Arab land thefts 21:00  |  Gregor 29/05/08   53.   Jihadi-minded 21:02  |  DeadlyCaliphateDream 29/05/08   54.   As soon as they find the Iraqi WMD?s they will be there 21:07  |  American in NY 29/05/08   55.   #11 Sami...then Syria should let the IAEA 21:48  |  Lynn 29/05/08   56.   # 49 DZD....actually Iraq is doing far better 21:54  |  Lynn 29/05/08   57.   Michael Jacobs- Sadly,a Friend of someone is an Enermy to another 21:59  |  Lamboutchy 29/05/08   58.   # 8 Lamboutchy...I guess it would be wise 22:02  |  Lynn 29/05/08   59.   # 27 Lamboutchy ...have you heard of NATO? 22:07  |  Lynn 29/05/08   60.   And get the IAEA into Israel, and also sign the NNPT 02:34  |  betz55 30/05/08   61.   Lamboutchy - Sheer stupidity 09:53  |  Michael Jacobs 30/05/08   62.   To: I know it all 13:52  |  yussuf 30/05/08

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