International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, 4 Mar 2010

Confronted by growing criticism at a closed door session of the IAEA in Vienna on Thursday, Syria once again accused Israel of trying to frame it over a suspected nuclear site that was bombed in September 2007, presumably by Israel.

Joined by his ally from Iran, the Syrian representative at the UN monitoring agency denied hiding its nuclear activities and said Israel was the source of the suspicious uranium particles found at the al-Kibar complex in the northern desert.

The latest Syrian suggestion is that Israel dropped uranium particles from the air after the bombing to implicate the Assad regime.

The comments came in response to Western demands today that Damascus stop stonewalling IAEA attempts to investigate suspicions that it was pursuing covert nuclear programs, some with possible weapons applications.

A recent IAEA report prepared under its new director Yukiya Amano said for the first time that uranium particles found at the facility after it was destroyed indicate possible covert nuclear activities at the site.

Western intelligence agencies believe the complex was a nearly completed nuclear reactor of North Korean design and meant to make weapons-grade plutonium.

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