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BEIRUT — U.N. experts began probing allegations Monday that Syria has a hidden nuclear program as Damascus imposed strict secrecy on the visit, warning the U.N. not to drag it into a drawn-out investigation like the standoff with Iran.
The Syrian government’s silence was a sign of the deep sensitivities over the allegations, which Damascus denies but fears could be used by the U.S. to rally international pressure against it.
The U.N. inspectors’ main focus is the Al Kibar facility — a building in the remote eastern desert that Israeli jets destroyed in September and which American intelligence officials have claimed was a nearly completed plutonium-producing reactor.
