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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 11. februar 2004 / Time Line February 11, 2004
Version 3.510. Februar 2004, 12. Februar 2004
MORDECHAI VANUNU : TRAITOR, SPY, WHISTLEPLOWER, PEACEMAKER
by Kurt Singer
He and his parents came from Marocco, found asylum and
citizenship in Israel. Young Mordechai served 3 years in the
Israeli army. Mordechai He was a good soldier and was honorably
released as staff seargent after he had served for 3 years but had
developed doubts about General Ariel Sharon's and his country's war
in Lebanon and policies against the Palestinians. From 1976-1985 he
worked in a textile factory in the Negev desert.
However this textile plant was well camouflaged as the Dimona
nuclear manufacturing plant which had produced 200 atom bombs and
400 nuclear weapons. Urabium had been imported. He worked there as
a nuclear technician and had secretly phographed hundreds of
nuclear items. In 1985 when he was laid off from Dimona left Israel
and fled to Nepal. There he converted to Buddhism. His parents
never forgave him, they were orthodox Jews who said the kaddish
death prayers for him. Mordechai tried to enter the Soviet Union
but was rejected. He finally landed in Sydney Austraia where he
converted to Catholicism.
Looking for rcognition he met Peter Housman a correspondent for the
London Sunday Times. Both flew in early September 1986 to London
and his story of Israel's secret nuclear production exploded in the
Sunday Times and was heard around the world. Many of Mordechai's
pictures were also published and questions were asked: How much did
the USA know of these nuclear hideout which were hidden in six
different places in the Negev desert.
Directors of the Mossad secret services admitted later that there
was a plan to kill Vanunu to avoid further revelations.
But another plan was executed. A intrguing and quite beautiful
Mossad agent "Cindy" alias Sheryl Bentov posed as an American
tourist and lured Mordechai into her arms and both flew on
September 30, 1986 to Rome. There Vanunu was kidnapped, put on an
Haifa bound freighter and he faced a secret trial and was sentenced
to 18 years imprisonment.The trial was held in Jerusalem at the
District Court before Chief Justice Eliah Noam and judges Zvi Tal
and Shalom Brener. His sentence made it clear he was not allowed
any contact with the media. But Vanuhu wrote on his palm that he
had been kidnapped in Rome and showed it to the press when he was
transported from the court building.
Vanunu was promised a payment of $100.000 for his story but it was
never paid. No doubt Vanunu had changed history, especially history
of the Mideast. To Israel's enemies he was a hero. To the anti
militarists, pacifists and war protesters around the world
Mordechai Vanunu became the great symbol and martyr and peace
activist.
Vanunu's appeal was refused. For11 years and 6 month he lived in
total isolation. Amnesty International called it "cruel and inhuman
and degrading". The transcript of the court proceedings were not
released until 1999 and then only in parts.The European Parliament
had condemned Vanunu's treatment and called the kidnapping a
violation of Italy's sovereignity and international law.
A number of prominent persoanalities including novelist Gunther
Grass have recommended Vanunu for the Nobel Peace Prize. He will be
released, hopefully, on April 24th 2004 but his movements will be
quite restricted. He still may have some secrets untold.
It's more than doubtful tha Oslo will grant the Nobel Peace Price
to Vanunu.The Nobel Committee would not want to offend Israel as
little as they wanted to offend Britain when Mahatma Gandhi never
received the Peace Prize.
Vanunu has been awarded with the Danish Peace Foundation's
prize in 1988, the sum
of DKR. 100,000; the Right Livelihood Award 1987 and the
Nuclear-Free Future Award 2002.
IRAK: Operation Rockingham: nøglen til det fejlagtige britiske krigsgrundlag?
Af: Coilín ÓhAiseadha.
Jeg tillader mig at fremsende nedenstående link til en meget
indsigtsfuld og tankevækkende artikel skrevet af en tidligere
minister i Blair-regeringen, Michael Meacher, vedr. forfalskningen
af det britiske grundlag for at invadere Irak.
Den er særlig vigtig af flere årsager:
1. Den viser, at en afdeling indenfor det britiske
forsvarsministerium (ligesom i det amerikanske) manipulerede med
efterretninger for at vildlede befolkningen og politikerne om den
fiktive irakiske trussel.
2. Den dokumenterer, at den britiske misinformationskampagne vedr.
Iraks (ikke-eksisterende) våben rækker mindst ti
år tilbage. (!!)
3. Den påpeger, at David Kelly mente, at det var
usandsynligt, at Irak var i besiddelse af
masseødelæggelsesvåben, men at denne
afgørende efterretning blev fortiet.
Væsentligt indhold:
David Kelly har nævnt en afdeling indenfor det britiske
forsvarsministerium, som han kalder for Rockingham-cellen: "Within
the defence intelligence services I liaise with the Rockingham
cell."
Den yderst troværdige tidligere
UNSCOM-våbeninspektør Scott Ritter forklarer, at det
er en henvising til en Operation Rockingham, der blev lanceret i
1991 og fungerede til at skabe den meget udbredte opfattelse, at
Irak modarbejdede UNSCOM-våbeninspektionerne: "Operation
Rockingham cherry-picked intelligence. It received hard data, but
had a preordained outcome in mind. It only put forward a small
percentage of the facts when most were ambiguous or noted no WMD...
It became part of an effort to maintain a public mindset that Iraq
was not in compliance with the inspections. They had to sustain the
allegation that Iraq had WMD [when] Unscom was showing the
opposite."
Dels blev visse efterretninger udvalgt for at give en fordrejet
opfattelse af sagen, dels gav den hemmelige celle falske
oplysninger til UNSCOM med henblik på at fremprovokere
inspektioner, som man senere kunne henvise til som tegn på,
at irakerne skjulte noget. Ritter siger:
"Rockingham was the source of some very controversial information
which led to inspections of a suspected ballistic missile site. We
... found nothing.
However, our act of searching allowed the US and UK to say that the
missiles existed."
Meacher spørger, om det kan tænkes, at
Rockingham-cellen står bag den nu helt åbenbart absurde
påstand, at Irak kunne have lanceret
masseødelæggelsesvåben inden for 45 minutter,
som Tony Blair angiveligt troede på og brugte som begrundelse
for at invadere Irak.
Det viser sig, at David Kelly inden invasionen mente, at der kun
var 30% sandsynlighed for, at Irak var i besiddelse af
masseødelæggelsesvåben. Hvorfor kom denne
oplysning ikke frem?
MEACHER:
The Very Secret Service
Jan 31, 2004
By Michael Meacher
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