It appears that I was wrong, I figured that it was beyond their level of nuclear infrastructure to even try.
On a related note, officials at the IAEA are seriously pissed off at whoever leaked the above data, because they see it as, "an effort to prejudge the agency's conclusions."
Basically, it appears that the source of the contamination is not clear:
The particles retrieved from some environmental swipe samples were of processed uranium -- which could include the enriched version that in large quantities would fuel power plants or bombs, not of raw uranium ore, they said.
Such traces, they said, could have been carried to the site inadvertently on scientists or workers or on equipment trucked in. Syria has one declared atomic site, a research reactor.
A remote source could resemble a finding made in a long IAEA investigation of Iran's secretive nuclear program.
Bomb-grade uranium particles found by IAEA sleuths there were assessed to have come with used equipment obtained from Pakistan, not from any undeclared domestic production facility.
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