A year after Israel conducted a mysterious air- raid on Syria claiming to have destroyed nuclear reactors that the country had managed to build surreptitiously, the IAEA, which is conducting a probe into the incident, is finding it hard to find satellite images validating Israel's claims.
A chief nuclear inspector of the U.N. said on Thursday that his agency's probe had been considerably hindered because key satellite images of the alleged nuclear reactor site are surprisingly unavailable on the international market.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei has not put the blame on anyone for his organization's apparent failure but diplomats familiar with the investigation said agency officials were not ruling out the possibility that Syria or other nations with an interest in covering up the truth, had bought the photos and all the rights to them, from commercial satellite companies.
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