Questions remain after suspected reactor site bombed by Israel.
By JPOST.COM STAFFIAEA(photo credit: Associated Press)
The IAEA may consider a special inspection of Syria to answer nagging questions over its nuclear activities, the US ambassador to the organization said Tuesday.Glyn Davies said a number of countries on the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors support plans to invoke the rarely used sanction.RELATED:'Hizbullah has missile base in Syria'About that Jordanian nuclear reactor...Like Iran, Syria is suspected of hiding weapons-related nuclear activities and has blocked access to a suspected nuclear site destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007."We need to keep the focus very much on Iran — but stay tuned on Syria, because Syria I think would love to just stave off any serious action to get to the bottom of what they were doing," Davies told reporters in London.A recent IAEA report said that uranium particles found at the Dair Alzour desert facility indicate possible covert nuclear activities. The finding supported Western allegations that the bombed target was a nearly completed nuclear reactor which the US alleges was of North Korean design and intended to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
