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Officials in Syrian site deny IAF attack
 "The Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands" in Syria called the claims of an Israeli air strike "lies and fabrications", AFP reported on Sunday. Center officials denied the reports and said that after they had seen pictures of the center in newspapers, they realized that the alleged strike was supposedly carried out in one of their abandoned sites. An official message by the center read: "We were astonished by reports of an Israeli strike on one of our centers. The reports about the center in the Zionist press are lies and fabrications." The center also offered journalists from around the world a tour of the location. Two weeks ago, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja'afari said that nothing in Syria was bombed by the IAF, and nothing was damaged. Reports of such an attack were "ridiculous and not true," Army Radio reported Ja'afari as saying. Ja'afari added that "Syria does not have North Korean nuclear facilities." Anybody caught by surprise, raise a hand Posted by: gromgoru 2007-09-30 |
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