Scoop from the BBC and the Sunday Times: first interview from Mordechai Vanunu
Well done by BBC news and today by the Sunday Times (UK): "In his first interview since his release, Mordechai Vanunu, the former technician jailed for 18 years for leaking Israel's nuclear secrets has said he was trying to prevent a nuclear holocaust. "I felt it was not about betraying; it was about reporting. It was about saving Israel from a new holocaust." In the interview for the BBC's This World programme, Mr Vanunu said he had no regrets over his actions. "I have no regrets despite the fact I have paid a heavy punishment, a large price," he said. Mr Vanunu, 50, who is widely regarded as a traitor in Israel, spent nearly 18 years in prison for revealing details of Israel's clandestine nuclear arms programme. Under the terms of his release, Mr Vanunu is forbidden from leaving Israel, meeting foreigners and revealing secrets about the Dimona nuclear plant.
The interview was conducted by Israeli journalist and anti-nuclear activist Yael Lotan. She said an Israeli TV crew and Vanunu's brother were present during the two-hour interview at St. George, an Anglican church in Jerusalem. Vanunu converted to Christianity in the 1980s, and has been staying at the church since his release.
Lotan said a transcript of the interview is to be published in the Sunday Times (UK).
The whole story: BBC news. See also the Jerusalem Post via Associated Press
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