(Reuters) Sylvia Westall and Fredrik Dahl - Syria is refusing UN nuclear inspectors access to multiple suspect sites and has provided scant or inconsistent information about its atomic activities, an International Atomic Energy Agency report showed. For over two years Syria has blocked IAEA access to the remains of a desert site which U.S. intelligence reports say was a nascent North Korean-designed nuclear reactor to produce bomb fuel. The site, known as either al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, was bombed to rubble by Israel in 2007. The report showed Syria dodging agency questions about nuclear material, failing to keep to an inspection and monitoring plan agreed to earlier this year, and giving inconsistent information in letters to the IAEA.
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