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Various of Syrian Ambassador to US, Imad Moustapha addressing news conference2. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to US:\"What you have heard yesterday in the US...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, USA - 25 April 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of Syrian Ambassador to US, Imad Moustapha addressing news conference\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to US:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What you have heard yesterday in the US Congress, is not new. This administration has a proven record of falsifying and fabricating stories about WMDs (weapons of mass destruction). They have done this before; they have done this yesterday; and they will continue to do this in the future. The difference is, the hope, that this time the representatives of the American people and the American people themselves will be more careful in believing any such absurd, preposterous stories as the one we heard yesterday.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to US:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Can you believe, can anyone be as gullible as this? An allegedly strategic site in Syria, without a single military checkpoint around it; without barbed wire around it; without anti-aircraft missiles around it; without any sort of security surrounding it? Thrown in the middle of the desert without electricity or plans to generate electricity for it; without major supply plants around it? And yet it is supposed to be a strategic installation, and people don't even think of it?\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of audience\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to US:\u003cbr/\u003e\"While they denied that they gave a green light to Israel, it was very clear that they were in total collaboration with the Israelis, they were discussing everything, in minute details. What we have here is a flagrant infringement of international law, one country attacking another sovereign country. The United States of America, having the moral responsibility of being the world unique superpower, instead of at least, at least scolding Israel, is in full support of what Israel has done.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to US:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We believe in Syria that the true purpose is their talks with North Korea, and we believe that the real sinister forces behind this new set of lies has to do with neoconservative elements who are extremely unhappy with any agreement between the United States and North Korea, and they want to undermine this in a way or another, by putting unrealistic conditions on the North Koreans.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pan of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador to US:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The onus is on the United States administration to prove what it is trying to prove. We will be very happy to wait until they continue their series of lies. And I think the story will, as I will explain to you later, be totally, totally demolished. It will implode from within, and it will explode from without.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) Handout\u003cbr/\u003eSite purported to be Al-Kibar, Syria - Date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e++Overlaid with English commentary++\u003cbr/\u003e11. Satellite image of building that CIA purports to house a Syrian nuclear reactor \u003cbr/\u003e12. Various still images of building that CIA purports to house a Syrian nuclear reactor (overlaid with corresponding graphics)\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various still images that CIA purports to be reactor components during construction (overlaid with corresponding graphics)\u003cbr/\u003eSyria's ambassador to the United States said on Friday that the CIA fabricated pictures allegedly taken inside a secret Syrian nuclear reactor, and predicted that in the coming weeks the US story about the site would \"implode from within.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAmbassador Imad Moustapha told reporters at a news conference at his Washington residence the reports were \"absurd\" and \"preposterous\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"This administration has a proven record of falsifying and fabricating stories about WMDs (weapons of mass destruction). They have done this before,\" Moustapha said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The difference is, the hope that this time the representatives of the American people and the American people themselves will be more careful in believing any such absurd, preposterous stories as the one we heard yesterday,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, he refused to say what the building in the remote eastern desert of Syria was used for before Israeli jets bombed it in September 2007.\u003cbr/\u003eSenior US intelligence officials alleged on Thursday that it was a secret nuclear reactor meant to produce plutonium, which can be used to make high-yield nuclear weapons. \u003cbr/\u003eThey alleged that North Korea aided in the design, construction and outfitting of the building.\u003cbr/\u003eSyria bulldozed the building's ruins a month after it was bombed and constructed a new, larger building in its place, leaving little or no evidence of what had been on the site.\u003cbr/\u003eMoustapha would not explain the purpose of the new building. \u003cbr/\u003eBut he said the lack of military checkpoints, air defences or barbed wire fences around either building should show that it was not a sensitive facility.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Can you believe, can anyone be as gullible as this? An allegedly strategic site in Syria, without a single military checkpoint around it,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Thrown in the middle of the desert without electricity or plans to generate electricity for it; without major supply plants around it?\"\u003cbr/\u003eSo far, Syria has not allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the area, but on Friday Syria's United Nations Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari pledged on Friday to cooperate with the agency.\u003cbr/\u003eMoustapha reiterated Syria's position that the attack was a \"flagrant infringement of international law\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"While they (the US) denied that they gave a green light to Israel, it was very clear that they were in total collaboration with the Israelis, they were discussing everything, in minute details,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The United States of America, having the moral responsibility of being the world unique superpower, instead of at least, at least scolding Israel, is in full support of what Israel has done.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the CIA, the Syrian reactor was modelled on a small North Korean reactor built at Yongbyon. \u003cbr/\u003eThat facility produced a small amount of plutonium for nuclear weapons.\u003cbr/\u003eSo far, North Korea has not said anything about whether it lent Syria a hand in building any such reactor.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The onus is on the United States administration to prove what it is trying to prove,\" said Moustapha. \"I think the story will... be totally, totally demolished. 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