Author
marco [for Kathleen Beckett (reprint)]
Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear whistle-blower speaks to group visiting East Jerusalem on March 30, 2005.
MP3 file approx. 1 hour long.
While visiting Jerusalem and the West Bank in late March and early April, my husband and I met Mordechai Vanunu who is under house arrest at the St. George's Guest House where we were staying.
Mordechai Vanunu, was an Israeli nuclear technician at the Dimona nuclear "research center" in the Negev Desert near his home at Beersheba. He worked there during the 1970's and early 80's. The facility harbored an underground plutonium separation plant operated in strictest secrecy. Vanunu took photographs of the facility and left the country.
Captured by Israeli agents on September 30, 1986, Vanunu spent more than 11 1/2 years in solitary confinement completing his entire 18-year sentence in Israel's Ashkelon Prison on April 21, 2004. Vanunu's house arrest was to be considered by the Israeli court on April 20th, 2005. Vanunu would like to leave Israel and write a book - preferably establishing a relationship with an academic institution. The courts refused to release him. Vanunu did not attend the session.
When he heard we were from Madison, he came rushing over to us saying, "Ah, Madison Wisconsin. Sam Day. Sam Day. He was a wonderful man."
http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/24130/index.php
http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/203436.shtml