Syria refutes UN nuclear chief's reactor claim http://mg.co.za/article/2011-11-03-syria-refutes-un-nuclear-chiefs-reactor-claim/ 

Bashar Ja'afari told the UN general assembly that most findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) under the current director general, Yukiya Amano, relied on imagery and analysis presented by the US Central Intelligence Agency.Ja'afari said that Syria was the sponsor of a UN Security Council resolution, which was never put to a vote, calling for the Middle East to be a zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.

[ALSO SEE..FLASHBACK- Scott Ritter: By Releasing Intel, US Endorses Israel’s Illegal Bombing of Alleged Syrian Nuke Site http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/28/un_nuclear_watchdog_chief_blasts_us I don’t know what was going on at this site. If the images are accurate, it appears that Syria was producing a very, very small research reactor. But it is not a reactor usable in a nuclear weapons program. Syria was not violating the law. This shows that the United States and Israel have a wanton disregard for the rule of law. And this is especially critical when the United States is holding up the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a standard in which we hold Iran and North Korea accountable to. You know, there would have to be literally thousands of pounds of pure graphite that would have to be introduced to this facility, and there’s no evidence in the destruction.