Ambassador: Claims about Syria are 'Iraq déj
The facility bombed by Israeli warplanes in September was a vacant military building, and any claim that it was a nuclear facility is "ridiculous," Syria's ambassador to the United States said Friday. Imad Moustapha spoke a day after the White House called the site a covert nuclear reactor that probably was "not intended for peaceful purposes." Photos the United States provided to him Thursday don't prove anything, Moustapha said. He argued that they weren't taken in Syria and that there was no proof they came from Syria. "They were showing me photos from inside a building somewhere in the world," Moustapha said. He noted that the photos showed just one building -- which didn't have enough power or other complex facilities nearby, such as reprocessing plant for extracting plutonium from spent nuclear fuel -- in order to operate a nuclear program. "I had to ask myself, is this Hollywood or Foggy Bottom?" he said, calling it "Iraq déj |
