My RSS Feeds
Dark Secret: Worldwide Hero and Unknown in USA - Mordechai Vanunu -RI9
Originally published June 4, 2005, at http://tabacco.myblogsite.com/
Published: 2005.06.04 07:06PM EDT
Dark Secret:
Worldwide Hero And
Unknown In USA -
Mordechai Vanunu
-RI9
Do you know who Mordechai Vanunu is? If not, you can blame the US media.
Mordechai Vanunu was a former Israeli nuclear technician, who blew the whistle on Israel's secret nuclear weapons program (WMD's) to the British press as an "act of conscience". He was employed at the Negev Nuclear Research Center, south of Dimona. Having fled Israel, he was captured by Israeli agents September 30, 1986, in Rome after being seduced, drugged and abducted back to Israel. (Sounds familiar, doesn't it?) He was tried in secret for treason and convicted. He served 18 years in prison, more than 11-1/2 of them in solitary confinement as a political prisoner. He was released April 21, 2004, but under very strict conditions which include not being allowed to leave Israel, travel inside Israel to certain areas, or speak to foreigners. He violated those terms when he was interviewed by, among others, Amy Goodman*** of "Democracy Now" on World Link TV. I saw that interview. He said little and revealed even less.
Neither Israel nor the United States is anxious for Mordechai to leave Israel and bring "front page" coverage to Israel's nuclear WMD program. The United States has N-E-V-E-R acknowledged that Israel has a nuclear program. (That's why I'm still on the fence about aliens or ET's because the US government not only has never acknowledged the existence of aliens, through Project Blue Book, they instituted a "disinformation" study whose aim was not to uncover the truth, but to cover-up and camouflage the truth. -"Once a liar, always a liar!")
Israel's WMD shenanigans are even worse than how they treated Vanunu. They are the only nuclear power without any international inspectors. A few years ago the US granted them a special status so that commercial satellites cannot photograph Israel with the resolution they photograph the rest of the world.
The location of Israel's 5 major nuclear program installations is public knowledge and has been for some time. But Israel wants to put Mordechai Vanunu back in jail because of interviews granted to the press and statements such as, "We don't need a Jewish state. There needs to be a Palestinian state.".
ISRAEL'S 5 MAJOR NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS:
Source: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/IsraeliFacilities.shtml
1- Eilabun (tactical nuclear weapons storage facility)
2- Yodefat (nuclear weapons assembly facility)
3- Nahal Soreq (nuclear weapons research and design facility)
4- Kfar Zekharya (nuclear missile base and bomb storage facility)
5- Dimona (Negev Nuclear Research Center; plutonium production and extraction facilities, along with other weapons-related infrastructure)
WEBSITES ABOUT MORDECHAI VANUNU (Partial List)
For more information, contact the U.S. Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu, 2206 Fox Ave., Madison, WI 53711, (608)257-4764, http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu
Letters of support can be sent to Mordechai Vanunu, Ashkelon Prison, Ashkelon, Israel.
http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/morestory.html
http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
http://www.peaceheroes.com/MordecaiVanunu/mvanunu.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1193015,00.html
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/recip/vanunu.htm
http://www.peaceispossible.info/Vanunu.html
http://counterpunch.org/goodman08182004.html (The Amy Goodman Interview)***
http://www.serve.com/nukeresister/nr116/nr116mordechai.html
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31509
WEBSITES ABOUT ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WMD PROGRAM (Partial List)
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/farr.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3870279.stm
http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/archive/index.php/t-27301.html
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Israel/Nuclear/3583.html
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/17/230350.shtml
OK, so I had to put one website by those most likely to feel Israel's WMD's 1st hand: Islamics
http://www.islamonline.net/english/views/2002/12/article11.shtml
PS. Vanunu converted to Christianity in 1986, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, a long-running campaign has sought his release, and his treatment was condemned by Amnesty International as "cruel, inhuman, and degrading."
In 1981's 'Body Heat', Kathleen Turner said, "Knowledge is power".
T.A.B.A.C.C.O. (Truth About Business And Congressional Crimes Organization)