Reply #5: Vanunu was jailed for admitting the Israeli nuclear program

[RainDog]

the only people who don't know or think Israel has nuclear weapons are the ones who don't want to know it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu


born in Marrakech, Morocco on October 13, 1954 is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently kidnapped in Rome by Israeli agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried and convicted of treason.

Mordechai Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 years in solitary confinement. Vanunu was released from prison in 2004, subject to a broad array of restrictions on his speech and movement. Since then he has been briefly arrested several times for violations of those restrictions, including giving various interviews to foreign journalists and attempting to leave Israel.

http://www.counterpunch.org/goodman08182004.html

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/8839

http://www.peaceheroes.com/MordecaiVanunu/mvanunu.htm

"I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region." --- Mordechai Vanunu