UN nuclear inspectors wrap up Syria visit

UN nuclear investigators were winding up a four-day visit to Syria on Wednesday after checking an alleged atomic site bombed by Israel in September.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent the team after receiving US photos of the al-Kibar site that prompted it to put Syria on its proliferation watch list in April. The IAEA has criticised Washington for waiting until long after the Israeli raid to brief the UN nuclear watchdog about its suspicions that Syria, with North Korean help, had almost completed a reactor that could have yielded plutonium for bombs. (Reuters)