WASHINGTON: Syrians are rebuilding a desert site bombed by the Israeli military last September on suspicions it was supposed to house a nuclear reactor, The New York Times reported on its website late Friday.
The newspaper said a satellite picture released Friday by a private Colorado-based company, DigitalGlobe, shows a square building under construction in Syria, on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, north of the Iraqi border. The site appears to closely resemble the original structure, the report said. However, the photo taken from space on Wednesday, shows that the roof of the new building is vaulted instead of flat.
Israeli jets bombed the site in early September after Israeli and US intelligence had concluded it was a partly constructed nuclear reactor. The Syrians have denied the allegations. Following the attack, the Syrians wiped the area clean, and resumed construction work, according to the paper. “We can assume it’s not a reactor,” The Times quotes David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington as saying. He added that if international inspectors eventually get to the site, they will have a more difficult time looking for nuclear evidence. “The new building,” Albright is quoted as saying, “covers whatever remained of the destroyed one.” afp
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