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Syria denies it confirmed target of IAF strike was nuclear facility
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service

Syria denied Wednesday its representatives to the United Nations had confirmed that an Israel Air Force strike last month targeted nuclear facility, and added that such facilities do not exist in Syria, state-run news agency said.

The Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, quoting a foreign ministry source, said that Syria had made it clear in the past that there are no such facilities in Syria.

On Tuesday, a UN press release sent after a meeting of the First Committee, Disarmament and International Security, in New York paraphrased Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar al-Jaafari, as saying that a nuclear facility was hit.
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"Israel was the fourth largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations' airspace, and it had taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria," the release paraphrased al-Jaafari as saying, in an apparent error as to the date of the September 6 air strike.

Syria has confirmed that the target of an IAF raid deep within its borders last month was a nuclear facility, Israeli Foreign Ministry officials said Wednesday.

The comments were first reported to Israel by Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs Miriam Ziv, who took part in the UN meeting.

In an official response, the Foreign Ministry confirmed the content of Ziv's report, but declined further comment.

The comments follow a Saturday New York Times account, which said that the attack targeted a partially built nuclear reactor that was years away from completion.

Israeli officials have been largely silent about the affair. The military only recently relaxed censorship to allow Israel-based journalists to report that Israeli aircraft attacked a military target deep inside Syria.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has maintained that Israel bombed an "unused military building" in the raid.

The Times said the nuclear reactor was modeled on one North Korea had used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel. North Korea has denied involvement in any such activities in Syria.

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  1.   Syria has a number of "nuclear facilities" 08:21  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  2.   Army radio, unnamed Syrian delegate, New York Times. 08:30  |  Maureen Ann 17/10/07
  3.   #1&2 should get together and discuss facts 09:19  |  victor hardman 17/10/07
  4.   Repeating claims don`t change facts 09:29  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  5.   Thats not what I said !!!!!!!!! 09:40  |  Unnamed Syrian Deleg 17/10/07
  6.   Ricardo Lopez Dusil 09:46  |  David Segal 17/10/07
  7.   #4 09:54  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  8.   Syria`s nuclear capability 10:01  |  Peter XM 17/10/07
  9.   For "Victor Hardman" # 3 10:13  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  10.   #7 Clickfool 10:42  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  11.   Clickfool #1 10:43  |  S 17/10/07
  12.   "If accurate" ha ha ha ha ha ha 10:47  |  Roger Bannister 17/10/07
  13.   #9 clikko fails to apologise to talkback 10:51  |  victor hardman 17/10/07
  14.   CLICKFOOL AND ASSAD ARE ONE 10:52  |  Nephtaly 17/10/07
  15.   #1 Incorrect information 10:57  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  16.   4Shlomo where`s the contradiction in Azad saying that it was an 10:59  |  lakshmi 17/10/07
  17.   Where is the official confirmation? 11:00  |  UN POST 17/10/07
  18.   #12 roger gets splinters in his arse sliding down the bannister 11:06  |  victor hardman 17/10/07
  19.   Official Quoted?? Says who? 11:11  |  Alex 17/10/07
  20.   Do look for the truth, and try not to swallow even more lies 11:26  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  21.   #10, Shlomo, still squatting upon Palestinian land 11:35  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  22.   WOW - Bashar LIED! 11:39  |  matt 17/10/07
  23.   In all fairness Victor, It`s the 4 minute mile! 11:45  |  B`Galil 17/10/07
  24.   Hannah 11:52  |  David 17/10/07
  25.   Lakshmi, my favorite Julab 11:57  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  26.   Margie #15 11:58  |  Guido 17/10/07
  27.   If I was Syrian 12:01  |  Chris Linthwaite 17/10/07
  28.   For Shlomo # 10 12:03  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  29.   Of course it was an empty building... 12:05  |  Uri 17/10/07
  30.   #24, David 12:07  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  31.   Chris Linthwaite 12:12  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  32.   re: Clickfool 12:15  |  Efox 17/10/07
  33.   Gotta suck this one for all bashers, leftists, peace-now whatever 12:18  |  Johnny 17/10/07
  34.   Can you feel it lakshmi? 12:19  |  Johnny 17/10/07
  35.   #13 Paul Harris aka victor hardkopf 12:20  |  Labhras 17/10/07
  36.   #1 so called dishonest peacenik Margie 12:32  |  Labhras 17/10/07
  37.   Another unsubstantiated statement 12:33  |  Mark Lincoln 17/10/07
  38.   #31 WWACD 12:34  |  Chris Linthwaite 17/10/07
  39.   Our perpetually wrong leftists strategists - salute! 12:34  |  17 17/10/07
  40.   Antisemitic gloaters - serially wrong 12:35  |  17 17/10/07
  41.   #24 Hannah 12:38  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  42.   The same old pattern 12:39  |  Mark Lincoln 17/10/07
  43.   No they are talking about 12:45  |  Unnamed Syrian Deleg 17/10/07
  44.   Chris Linthwaite 12:50  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  45.   #24 David 12:51  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  46.   The problem about constantly being caught lying 12:53  |  IBra 17/10/07
  47.   Good mornign labrat 13:14  |  Sol 17/10/07
  48.   #41, Shlomo 13:18  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  49.   25WWWACD,a little slow on the uptake,are we? 13:18  |  lakshmi 17/10/07
  50.   #49, 17 13:29  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  51.   Clickfool again. No wonder you don`t answer my question to you. 13:34  |  S 17/10/07
  52.   #15 Margie knows what the IAEA knows... 13:34  |  Johnboy 17/10/07
  53.   For Efox # 32 13:36  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  54.   Syria to Clickfook 13:38  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  55.   "Miriam Ziv, who took part in the UN meeting." 13:39  |  Miriam Weller 17/10/07
  56.   For Labhras # 35 13:40  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  57.   IAEA but no enhanced inspection 13:47  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  58.   Syria denies what Israel confirms Syria confirmed 13:48  |  18 17/10/07
  59.   For S # 51 13:50  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  60.   For WWACD # 54 13:57  |  Clickfool 17/10/07
  61.   to Shlomo 13:59  |  Sol 17/10/07
  62.   Lakshmi: When you say "we" do you mean as in "we indians"? 14:09  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  63.   Syria to Clickfook - You are not getting it. 14:25  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  64.   28 in re to 7...may be a fake but is TRUE 14:32  |  The Equalizer 17/10/07
  65.   #58 18 and others - it`s now in official UN protocol 14:35  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  66.   #61, Sol 14:38  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  67.   Hannah # 50 Re Gloating At The Fall Of Israel 14:42  |  Dick Hertz 17/10/07
  68.   #35 the mystery irish tinker who never gets up before midday 15:02  |  victor hardman 17/10/07
  69.   Are we there yet? 15:13  |  joebhed 17/10/07
  70.   To Sol #61: Hannah as a James Bond villain 15:18  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  71.   #67, Dick Hertz 15:20  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  72.   paraphrasing 15:21  |  Tess 17/10/07
  73.   Prememptive strike??? 15:36  |  Joe 17/10/07
  74.   Hannah #71 - And The Sephardic Cousins 15:38  |  Dick Hertz 17/10/07
  75.   SOME facts beyond doubt.Syria removed recordsof North Korean ship 15:39  |  PETER SM 17/10/07
  76.   #71 Hannah`s revenge fantasy 15:42  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  77.   For those who don`t know how to ask 15:44  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  78.   The Middle East NEEDS nuclear proliferation 15:47  |  American 17/10/07
  79.   Shlomo 15:47  |  Esther 17/10/07
  80.   Incidentally Hannah - Which Version Of The Quran 15:49  |  Dick Hertz 17/10/07
  81.   BANNISTER upset that Israelis did not drop their guns &surrender 15:49  |  PETER SM 17/10/07
  82.   This is the quote 15:57  |  sh 17/10/07
  83.   #10 Shlomo regarding Clickfool 16:04  |  Maurice 17/10/07
  84.   #80, Dick Hertz 16:14  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  85.   hannah you legend 16:14  |  lawrence 17/10/07
  86.   Dimona 16:14  |  Noura 17/10/07
  87.   To the sweet Noura 16:29  |  dovale 17/10/07
  88.   Syria do admit 16:33  |  dovale 17/10/07
  89.   Margie # 77 16:51  |  Guido 17/10/07
  90.   Hannah #21 16:54  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  91.   Labhras...Nuke info 16:59  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  92.   Of course Syria did not confirm 17:10  |  Tosefta 17/10/07
  93.   Noura-Dimona 17:11  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  94.   Dovale, LOL!!!! 17:13  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  95.   # 70 WWACD.re:Hannah and Your Apt Interpretation.. 17:13  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  96.   HANNAH whats wrong with answering rather than ducking questions 17:13  |  PETER SM 17/10/07
  97.   attack on Syria nuclear plant 17:13  |  Jean 17/10/07
  98.   #79 -Esther 17:16  |  Shlomo 17/10/07
  99.   #90, Mark T. 17:19  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  100.   # 87 dovale.Was it a Typo Error??dovale read it again please.. 17:20  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  101.   Tosefta # 92 17:21  |  Guido 17/10/07
  102.   Peter SM - on wife beating 17:28  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  103.   Hardman #9 Clickfool running scared 17:29  |  FOX 17/10/07
  104.   99 hannah 17:30  |  alan 17/10/07
  105.   # 92 Tosefta re:Confirmation...Syria Etc. 17:36  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  106.   #10 Hannah projecting once again 17:36  |  FOX 17/10/07
  107.   Johnny boy and the wild geese 17:37  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  108.   to KATH 17:38  |  dovale 17/10/07
  109.   clickfool # 7 17:45  |  kameel 17/10/07
  110.   Matt #22 Bashar Lied? Oh my! 17:49  |  FOX 17/10/07
  111.   How funny! 17:53  |  Yonatan 17/10/07
  112.   No reason to admit (Guido #101) 17:54  |  Tosefta 17/10/07
  113.   Excellent! 17:56  |  Paul 17/10/07
  114.   #14 17:58  |  Paul 17/10/07
  115.   Guido, Israel did not intruduce nukes to the Middle East 17:59  |  Jake 17/10/07
  116.   Sad, Sad Tosefta 17:59  |  FOX 17/10/07
  117.   KATH` 18:04  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  118.   #9 Clickfool on Victor Hardman 18:04  |  Yonatan 17/10/07
  119.   Noura, If you could you would #86 18:05  |  FOX 17/10/07
  120.   SHHHHH, Turkey is about to attack the Kurds 18:13  |  FOX 17/10/07
  121.   #103 Rabid Fox on the loose. 18:15  |  Labhras 17/10/07
  122.   WWACD #70 18:21  |  FOX 17/10/07
  123.   We can mutilate the genitals ugh 18:23  |  barbarian 17/10/07
  124.   getting personal?? 18:30  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  125.   Hannah--Palestine 18:33  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  126.   Hannah Balfour 18:39  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  127.   FAKE HANNAH (aka Ms Kohn) ALERT! #102 18:52  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  128.   Tosefta - do you still admire Syria? 18:53  |  Jewboy 17/10/07
  129.   #104, alan 18:57  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  130.   #84, Hannah 19:16  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 17/10/07
  131.   #92 Tosefta 19:24  |  Sarah 17/10/07
  132.   American #78, poorly disguised 19:32  |  FOX 17/10/07
  133.   Admiring Syria? (Jewboy #109) 19:35  |  Tosefta 17/10/07
  134.   What might have happened with the raid in Syria 19:39  |  Tosefta 17/10/07
  135.   Hey Jewboy #112 19:40  |  FOX 17/10/07
  136.   #113 Hannah 19:42  |  Sol 17/10/07
  137.   Johnny boy and chasing the wild geese 20:00  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  138.   #127, Sarah 20:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 17/10/07
  139.   #112 Hana` - On spelling, diatribes and maybe even knitting. 20:13  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  140.   Frankly, my dear Sarah #127 20:20  |  Tosefta 17/10/07
  141.   #112 Rabid Fox on the loose 20:22  |  Tosefta 17/10/07
  142.   Johnny boy and chasing the wild geese 20:25  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  143.   Hannah #2 20:34  |  Jay 17/10/07
  144.   Jay---responsibility 20:57  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  145.   Labrat #117, what are you going on about? 21:18  |  FOX 17/10/07
  146.   Sarah Hamoudi #127 21:24  |  FOX 17/10/07
  147.   # 113 WWACD 21:32  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  148.   #132 Fox`s News 21:40  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  149.   C.J. Kohn! Where the hell have you been you old so-and-so? 21:43  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  150.   Tosefta the coward #132 21:55  |  FOX 17/10/07
  151.   #138, WWACD 21:58  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 17/10/07
  152.   Hannah 21:59  |  Mark 17/10/07
  153.   # 92 Tosefta and all your posts 22:08  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  154.   KATH` #136 - Tough is good 22:15  |  WWACD 17/10/07
  155.   Whatever `botheres` Israel, better if & when gone 22:26  |  TonyL 17/10/07
  156.   Sarah 22:32  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  157.   Sarah 22:33  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  158.   Trips 22:34  |  Mark T 17/10/07
  159.   Sarah 22:34  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 17/10/07
  160.   FOX, Cipora: There is a pattern to Tossi... 22:41  |  Jewboy 17/10/07
  161.   Sarah #127 22:58  |  TonyL 17/10/07
  162.   WWACD & Fox 23:11  |  Hannah 17/10/07
  163.   # 146 TonyL..Welcome Aboard! You Have Echoed My Feelings.. 23:25  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  164.   # 137 Tosefta Rabid Fox on the loose?? 23:51  |  KATH` 17/10/07
  165.   Stupid Israeli 23:53  |  Stuart Baxter 17/10/07
  166.   #138 And Margie knows for a fact that wasn`t what Israel hit... 00:09  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  167.   # 149 WWACD...On Toughness a Quote to me By Yonatan Netser . 00:12  |  KATH` 18/10/07
  168.   Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs 00:24  |  Esther 18/10/07
  169.   Tosefta - what we know about the raid 00:26  |  Mark Lincoln 18/10/07
  170.   #40 17 Israel - Serial warmongering invader! 00:26  |  Maureen Ann 18/10/07
  171.   Chatterbox Cathy #155 00:36  |  Tosefta 18/10/07
  172.   #65 Actually, Shlomo, the UN has just said "oops!" 01:40  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  173.   Slowman`s wisdom on skipping posts 01:52  |  Barak Ravid 18/10/07
  174.   Sexy Lies, Truth and Haartz Reporting 02:06  |  Mark Lincoln 18/10/07
  175.   Lies for Guys 02:09  |  Mark Lincoln 18/10/07
  176.   Roger Bannister 02:19  |  Connie 18/10/07
  177.   # 72 Tess 02:30  |  Lynn 18/10/07
  178.   Johnboy---egg 02:30  |  Mark T 18/10/07
  179.   The advantage of using one`s head (Sarah #127) 02:31  |  Tosefta 18/10/07
  180.   #70, WWACD 03:39  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  181.   #80, Dick Hertz... 03:41  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  182.   #118, WWACD re: Hannah 03:48  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  183.   #128,FOX...to American 03:50  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  184.   #135, Fox re Hannah 03:53  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  185.   Fox re: Labhras... 03:56  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  186.   WWACD - I`m splitting my sides here! 04:14  |  Dakkar 18/10/07
  187.   re: Clickfool 04:40  |  Efox 18/10/07
  188.   HA HA TOLD YOU SO (POST #19) 05:05  |  Alex 18/10/07
  189.   Actually Dear Hannah # 84 I DO Read Arabic, Speak It And Write 05:13  |  Dick Hertz 18/10/07
  190.   Tossi to Cath (#158): are you OK dude? 05:32  |  Jewboy 18/10/07
  191.   The raid (Mark Lincoln #157) 05:53  |  Tosefta 18/10/07
  192.   #149 Let`s just tough it out, says WWACD 05:57  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  193.   #158 - Hana` 08:32  |  WWACD 18/10/07
  194.   WHEN SYRIA PREVARICATES....... 08:38  |  Dagma 18/10/07
  195.   #151 Well, its an honest opinion, TonyL 08:40  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  196.   Johnny boy 09:10  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 18/10/07
  197.   Silvenne, Johnboy 09:21  |  Stephen 18/10/07
  198.   A tangled web of lies 09:28  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 18/10/07
  199.   Silvienne - Always pleased to meet a fan 09:31  |  WWACD 18/10/07
  200.   #192 Why did you call it a "withdrawal", Stephen? 09:45  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  201.   #189 WWACD`s mantra 09:54  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  202.   #196 You fail the Commonsense Test, Margie 10:23  |  Johnboy 18/10/07
  203.   Johnboy 10:26  |  WWACD 18/10/07
  204.   Johnboy part deux 10:36  |  WWACD 18/10/07
  205.   #192Johnboy part uno (second try - *sigh* morning censor is back) 11:32  |  WWACD 18/10/07
  206.   #199, WWACD, I didn`t write #135 18:25  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  207.   WWACD, would you like to hear... 18:27  |  Silvienne 18/10/07
  208.   #203 WWACD plonks his hubris on the table again 01:41  |  Johnboy 19/10/07
  209.   #203 WWACD asks me a question 01:50  |  Johnboy 19/10/07
  210.   Johnboy--hubris 14:24  |  Mark T 19/10/07
  211.   #210, Mark T to Johnboy... 19:09  |  Silvienne 19/10/07
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