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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061900520.html
UN Atom Watchdog Faces Tough Search Mission in Syria
[Reuters/Washington Post ] Mark Heinrich - UN inspectors go to Syria on Sunday to probe allegations of covert nuclear work at a site where Israeli warplanes destroyed a desert complex at the heart of Western suspicions. Washington said Syria, an ally of Iran whose shadowy uranium enrichment program has been under IAEA investigation for five years, almost completed the nascent reactor with North Korean know-how. "Don't expect much from this trip, given Syria's extensive efforts to remove incriminating evidence and the restrictions they will put on where the IAEA can go," said Mark Fitzpatrick at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. "If the IAEA doesn't find anything, it shouldn't be taken as any exoneration of Syria."