Look what the IAEA dug up:
The first independent investigation of the suspected nuclear site in Syria that Israel destroyed last year has bolstered U.S. claims that Damascus was building a secret nuclear reactor, according to a U.N. report that also confirmed the discovery of traces of uranium amid the ruins.
Officials with the United Nations’ atomic agency stopped short of declaring the wrecked facility a nuclear reactor, but they said it strongly resembled one. And they noted that Syria had gone to great lengths — including elaborate “landscaping” with tons of freshly imported soil — to alter the site before admitting outsiders.
Despite the apparent cleanup effort, environmental sampling by U.N. inspectors turned up traces of uranium, the fissile metal used in nuclear reactors, according to the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the world body’s nuclear watchdog.
Turns out it’s not only expensive to construct a clandestine nuclear program, it’s hard to clean up after someone comes in and deconstructs it.
Worth keeping in mind.
…also found at the site were traces of cinder blocks, and traces of re-bar.
I loved how, when this was first reported, the Syrians were claiming that the “residual radiation” was from Israeli ordnance, and designed to fool inspectors into thinking that the peace-loving Syrians were.. gasp… involved with nuclear materials.
At least they are consistent, always blaming the jooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Why am I not surprised about a) The Syrians take on the event, and b) the findings of the IAEA?