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Apr 28, 2011 — Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says that the target destroyed by Israeli warplanes five years ago "was a reactor under construction" |
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U.N. Watchdog Says Syria Was Trying To Build Nuclear Reactorby Mark Memmott Apr 28, 2011 — Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says that the target destroyed by Israeli warplanes five years ago "was a reactor under construction" Comments |
"The head of the U.N. nuclear agency has said for the first time that Syria tried to secretly build a nuclear reactor," The Associated Press reports from Paris. The wire service adds that "Yukiya Amano says that the target destroyed by Israeli warplanes five years ago 'was a reactor under construction' " — something that Syrian officials have long denied, though it was reported at the time by The New York Times that the facility was a reactor modeled after a North Korean nuclear plant. Source: NPR Copyright(c) 2012, NPR
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