The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Syria’s Assad building nuclear weapons factory

Syria’s president Bashar Assad wants to have a nuclear bomb and has begun work on an underground plant in order to achieve his goal, German news magazine Der Spiegel Onlinreported on Friday.

Intelligence sources provided exclusive documents, satellite photographs and intercepted conversations to Der Spiegel that indicate that the plant is located near the city of Homs and is a built deep underground in an inaccessible mountain region only two kilometers from the Lebanese border.

Hezbollah, the Shi’te Lebanese militant group aligned with the Syrian President in the Civil War that has been raging in his country for almost four years, will be securing the facility. Iranian and North Korean experts are also reportedly involved in the project.

Western experts who evaluated the documents provided to Der Spiegel said they suspect that a reactor or an enrichment plant could be the aim of the project, whose codename is “Zamzam.”

Assad has reportedly transferred 8,000 fuel rods to the facility that were originally planned for the Al Kibar nuclear reactor.

In September 2007, Israel bombed the Al Kibar site Assad was building covertly along the Euphrates River. Israel has never acknowledged the attack.

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