What Does the IAEA Actually Report?
A perusal of the IAEA, published on the GlobalSecurity.org Web site, finds the IAEA report did not make this statement. Rather, as a matter of record, the IAEA report quotes word for word a Syrian letter which included this statement. Thus, paragraph 8 of the report’s “Chronology of Events” states: 8. In a letter dated 11 November 2008, Syria confirmed its compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the NPT) and provided the following clarifications5: The American allegation presented to the Agency for verification referred to a building under construction and not in operation; The analysis results of the samples taken from the destroyed site do not show any materials belonging to the construction of a nuclear reactor, confirming that the site which was under construction was for military purposes; We find it strange that there are a very limited number of humanly modified uranium particles in the analysis results of some samples, taking into consideration t
