Israel Arrests Nuke Whistleblower Vanunu for 'Leak'

Israel Arrests Nuke Whistleblower Vanunu for 'Leak'

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041111/wl_nm/mideast_vanunu_dc_6

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police put nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu under house arrest on Thursday on suspicion of spilling more state secrets, seven months after he completed an 18-year prison term for treason.

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"I cannot shut up, I have to have freedom of speech," he told reporters at the court.

The re-arrest of a man widely reviled in Israel but admired by anti-nuclear activists worldwide and repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize was overshadowed by the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) in Paris.

Vanunu was abducted in Rome by Mossad agents and jailed in 1986 for discussing his work at Israel's main atomic reactor in Dimona with a British newspaper. His revelations to the Sunday Times led experts to conclude that the Jewish state had amassed between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons, all but blowing away the country's policy of "strategic ambiguity" over its assumed non-conventional arsenal.

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Falluja
Mosul
Iraq in general
Arafat
BFEE
US Elections......

Pacifica, at minimun, will deal w/ it - can we hope for much more

in jail for 18 years the majority of it solitary confinement - was the colour of the bricks in his cell a state secret too?

let the man leave Israel and live the rest of his life