Vanunu seeks to give up Israeli citizenship-report

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0387878.htm

JERUSALEM, April 3 (Reuters) - Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has submitted a formal request to renounce his Israeli citizenship to avoid confinement in the country after his release this month, Israeli television reported on Saturday.

Israel's Channel two said Vanunu, who will complete an 18 year prison term on April 21, had sent a letter from the jail to the Israeli Interior Ministry asking to give up his citizenship.

Vanunu, 49, could find it difficult for his request to be granted. Interior Ministry regulations state that only Israelis living abroad can renounce their citizenship.

Vanunu, who worked at Israel's main reactor in the southern town of Dimona, gave Britain's Sunday Times newspaper in 1986 details about the facility, leading independent experts to conclude Israel has more than 100 nuclear warheads.

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[realdeal22k]

1. That more than whistleblowing

Some would call it treason.

[BJ]

3. So nuclear proliferation's okay when our guys do it?

So it's okay for Dubya and the company to crank up production of low yeild nuclear waepons? It's okay for Israel, Pakistan and India to have nuclear weapons but not Iran or North Korea?

[daleo]

2. He served his time, he should be allowed to leave the country

Although I find it hard to believe that he will see the light of day, for one reason or another.