U.N. inspectors face tough mission in Syria

Source: Reuters

By Mark Heinrich
Published: June 21, 2008

VIENNA: U.N. inspectors go to Syria on Sunday to probe allegations of covert nuclear work at a site where Israeli warplanes destroyed a desert complex at the heart of Western suspicions ...

But the IAEA's chief says there is no evidence Syria had the skills or fuel to run a major nuclear complex, and that a U.S. failure to alert inspectors before Israel's air strike last year would make it hard to verify what the target actually was.

"We will do everything in our power to clear things up. I take these accusations very seriously," Mohamed ElBaradei, referring to the June 22-24 mission headed by his deputy, said in a German media interview on June 7.

"But it is doubtful that we will find anything there now, assuming there was anything there in the first place" ...


Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/06/21/africa/OUKWD-UK-NUCLEAR-SYRIA-IAEA.php

But if he wants to inspect a nuclear weapons plant in the middle east, he might try the Negev Desert.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/