Vanunu arrested for "passing on classified documents"

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Israel arrests whistleblower Vanunu
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Thursday November 11, 2004 9:48 AM

Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been arrested by Israeli police for passing on classified documents to unnamed international parties, Israeli media reported.

Israeli police were not immediately available for comment.

Vanunu completed an 18-year prison sentence in April for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets to the Sunday Times.

As part of his release arrangement, he was barred from meeting with foreigners and discussing his work at Israel's top secret nuclear facility in the Negev Desert.

Since his release, Vanunu met on several occasions with foreign media representatives.

But he denied passing onto them any classified information.
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Presumably he had them in his pockets for 18 years and they forgot to search him when they let him out.
 
Hmmm I have to search about it but there is a more possible scenario than the one you post, demon.

You know, of course he has not kept any documents that they would be outdated anyway but it's very possible that other people ( form Israel's side) have passed him recent documents. Since he is the VIP in our case and journalists keep asking for interviews, maybe somebody else thought that he would be the best medium in passing info to the press.

So, although I do not know anything of essence yet this scenario is not that impossible.
 
Cleopatra said:
Hmmm I have to search about it but there is a more possible scenario than the one you post, demon.

You know, of course he has not kept any documents that they would be outdated anyway but it's very possible that other people ( form Israel's side) have passed him recent documents. Since he is the VIP in our case and journalists keep asking for interviews, maybe somebody else thought that he would be the best medium in passing info to the press.

So, although I do not know anything of essence yet this scenario is not that impossible.
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Giving secret documents to the most closely-watched man in Israel? A cunning plan worthy of General Melchett.
 
Mr Manifesto said:
Giving secret documents to the most closely-watched man in Israel? A cunning plan worthy of General Melchett.
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Oh ye of little faith.

All one has to do is wear a trenchcoat and a trilby pulled down over your face and no one will ever notice.

ed. to add.

Needless to say one meets in a public place and arranges a code phrase so that one can recognise one's contact.

"The lemming has flown over Masada"

" Yer wot"

"Er Sorry, I was looking for a friend."
 
Very funny.

As a lawyer Nikk you know very well that in many cases the most appropriate person to play the role of the messenger is the most guarded person.
 
Luke T. said:
A person is capable of carrying secrets in their head for decades.
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Yes, and I'm sure that if Vanunu told all that he knew before his incarceration, Israel's security network would unravel in seconds.
 
Well. According the terms of his release he shouldn't contact any foreigners and he broke this rule repeatedly. So, he got arrested. His lawyer should have warned him that breaking the restrictions of the release is not a good idea.
 
Cleopatra said:
Well. According the terms of his release he shouldn't contact any foreigners and he broke this rule repeatedly. So, he got arrested. His lawyer should have warned him that breaking the restrictions of the release is not a good idea.
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Some people believe that it's better to fight and lose than not to fight at all.
 
In Israel people get arrested. In the West Bank and Gaza they don't get lawyers OR a trial. They are shot dead where they stand.
Gunmen kill 7 suspected Israeli collaborators - April 1 2002 link
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Palestinian gunmen kill suspected collaborators - October 23, 2003 link
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Gunmen kill suspected collaborators in Gaza hospital - August 3, 2004 link
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Damn those horrible horrible Israelis for oppressing poor old Vanunu. Thank goodness the JREF morality police - Demon and Mr. Manafizzle - are here to expose Israel's war crimes. ;)
 
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zenith-nadir said:
In Israel people get arrested. In the West Bank and Gaza they don't get lawyers OR a trial. They are shot dead where they stand.
Damn those horrible horrible Israelis for oppressing poor old Vanunu. Thank goodness the JREF morality police - Demon and Mr. Manafizzle - are here to expose Israel's war crimes. ;)
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I can probably find lots of countries with a worse track record than Israel. Guess what! It doesn't make what's happening to Vanunu right.
 
Mr Manifesto said:
I can probably find lots of countries with a worse track record than Israel. Guess what! It doesn't make what's happening to Vanunu right.
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Between 1976 and 1985, Vanunu was employed as a nuclear technician at the Negev Nuclear Research Center...In 1985, he was laid off from Dimona and left Israel....In 1986, he traveled to Sydney, Australia. While in Sydney, Vanunu lived in a hostel in the Kings Cross and worked odd jobs, first as a hotel dishwasher and later a taxi driver....Vanunu converted to Christianity and was baptized into the Anglican Church. This isolated him from his family. While still in Sydney, he met with Peter Hounam, a journalist from the Sunday Times...In early September 1986, Vanunu flew to London with Hounam, and revealed to the Sunday Times his knowledge of the Israeli nuclear program, including photographs he had secretly taken at the Dimona site. link
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Wow. He's a hero... a martyr! Free Vanunu! Free Vanunu!!

May 17, 1999 - (CNN) -- An Australian who had access to U.S. military secrets during the six months he worked for his country's intelligence service was charged Monday with trying to sell classified U.S. information. link
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Damn those unfair American and Australian Authorities! Free the Auzzie Spy! Free the Auzzie Spy!!
 
They don't come much dumber than you

zenith-nadir said:
Wow. He's a hero... a martyr! Free Vanunu! Free Vanunu!!

Damn those unfair American and Australian Authorities! Free the Auzzie Spy! Free the Auzzie Spy!!
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Vanunu, unlike the Australian spy, has already served his sentence. There is nothing he knows that has any sort of currency. He should be given his freedom. The Australian spy can have his freedom once he's served his sentence. Simple, isn't it? To anyone except you, I mean.
 
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Mr Manifesto said:
Vanunu, unlike the Australian spy, has already served his sentence. There is nothing he knows that has any sort of currency. He should be given his freedom. The Australian spy can have his freedom once he's served his sentence. Simple, isn't it? To anyone except you, I mean.
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Strict conditions were imposed on him after release, including a ban on giving interviews to foreign media. Vanunu has repeatedly been in contact with journalists and was interviewed on BBC television just over two weeks ago.

link - BBC
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He's a hero!... Leave him alone!...Israel is evil! Free Vanunu! Free Vanunu!! ;)
 
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zenith-nadir said:
He's a hero!... Leave him alone!...Israel is evil! Free Vanunu! Free Vanunu!! ;)
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Israel claims time and again to be, 'the only democracy in the Middle East'. How can they lay claim to this when something as basic as the right to freedom of speech is impinged so blatantly like this?
 
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Mr Manifesto said:
Israel claims time and again to be, 'the only democracy in the Middle East'. How can they lay claim to this when something as basic as the right to freedom of speech is impinged so blatantly like this?
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So name all the democracies in the world where the freedom of speech extends to divulging state secrets.

Okay, maybe naming all of them is a bit too much. Can you name one?
 
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Mr Manifesto said:
Israel claims time and again to be, 'the only democracy in the Middle East'. How can they lay claim to this when something as basic as the right to freedom of speech is impinged so blatantly like this?
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So now it's about the freedom of speech is it? The guy violated the terms of his parol... he is not some martyr for the freedom of speech in Israel.


Keep digging Mr. Manafizzle, keep digging. It's hilarious.:dl:
 
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Mycroft said:
So name all the democracies in the world where the freedom of speech extends to divulging state secrets.
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Iraq or at least the the US goverment (and quite a lot of the rest of the international community) felt that it should.
 
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geni said:
Iraq or at least the the US goverment (and quite a lot of the rest of the international community) felt that it should.
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Julius and Ethel would not agree....

Vanunu is lucky to be alive. Or maybe not, he seems determined to martyr himself. Instead he just keeps landing in the hoosegow.

-z
 
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