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Israeli Police Arrest Nuclear Whistleblower

   Based  on  Vanunu's  interview  with  a British paper in 2004, experts
   concluded that Israel has around 200 nuclear warheads

   VOA News 29 December 2009
   Israeli  nuclear  whistleblower  Mordechai Vanunu waits in a courtroom
   before a hearing, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009.

Photo: AP

   Israeli  nuclear  whistleblower  Mordechai Vanunu waits in a courtroom
   before a hearing, in Jerusalem, 29 Dec 2009

   Israeli  police  have  arrested nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu
   for allegedly violating a ban on speaking to foreigners.
   Police  say Vanunu was arrested late Monday after violating conditions
   of his parole.
   Vanunu  was  released  from prison in 2004, after serving 18 years for
   discussing  his  work as a technician at Israel's Dimona nuclear plant
   with  a  British newspaper, Sunday Times, in 1986.  He has been banned
   from traveling abroad or having contact with foreigners.
   Vanunu has violated his parole before.
   Israel  has  never  acknowledged  or  denied  having a nuclear weapons
   program  under  a  policy  it  calls  "nuclear  ambiguity."   Based on
   Vanunu's  interview  with  the  British  paper, experts concluded that
   Israel has around 200 nuclear warheads.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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