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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: ooseven on April 21, 2004, 12:12:25 AM
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Thats him just released...welcome to freedom Hero of peace.
Vanunu prepared for jail release
Anti-nuclear campaigners have gathered outside an Israeli prison to await the imminent release of jailed nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu.
Supporters waved banners welcoming the impending release and calling him a "hero of peace". But many in Israel see him as a traitor.
Israel says he is a security threat and has barred him from travelling abroad.
Vanunu spent nearly 18 years in prison for revealing details of Israel\'s clandestine nuclear arms programme.
On the basis of the information he gave to the UK\'s Sunday Times Newspaper in 1986, analysts concluded Israel had scores of nuclear warheads.
The government has justified its decision to impose restrictions saying Vanunu still possesses state secrets "including some which he has not revealed".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3643907.stm
But Freedom at a cost :(
- No passport
- May not leave Israel for a year
- Contact with foreigners only by permission
- Barred from foreign embassies
- Media interviews not permitted
- Banned from discussing nuclear secrets
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I saw him on 60 minutes one time, wasn’t he adopted by an American family while he was in prison?
One of the guys behind the whole thing said "I\'ll make sure he never leaves this country".. hmm.
No wonder he wants to leave Israel.