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October 24, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302577.html?hpid=topnews

Satellite Imagery Shows Israeli Target Inside Syria Similar to North Korean Reactor

[Washington Post] Robin Wright and Joby Warrick - Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates River site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery of the area shows buildings under construction similar in design to a North Korean reactor capable of producing nuclear material for one bomb a year. Photographs of the site taken before the Sep. 6 airstrike depict a tall, boxy structure similar to the type of building used to house a gas-graphite reactor. They also show what could have been a pumping station used to supply cooling water for a reactor, say experts David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). "I'm pretty convinced that Syria was trying to build a nuclear reactor," Albright said in an interview.

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