not again

Syria denies US claims of a secret nuclear program

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's president scoffed at U.S. claims that his country was building a nuclear reactor at a site attacked by Israel seven months ago, according to excerpts of an interview published Friday.

President Bashar Assad questioned the logic of such allegations and insisted that the site was an unused military facility.

"Is it logical for a nuclear site to be left without protection and not guarded by anti-aircraft guns?" Assad told the Qatari newspaper Al-Watan.

"A nuclear site under the watch of satellites in the middle of Syria in the desert and in an open location?" Assad said.

He reiterated that the site destroyed by the Israelis was "a Syrian military position under construction and not a nuclear reactor."

The full interview with Assad, to be published Sunday, was conducted Tuesday, the day U.S. intelligence officials said they would show House and Senate members evidence supporting their case that Syria was building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance before Israel destroyed it.

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Obviously, i have no idea who is telling the truth, but how sad is it that this administration tells so many lies that it would just be assumed that they were lying again in this case?

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