Posted on 07/29/2004 4:50:51 PM PDT by swampfx
Comments by freed nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu that Israel was behind the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy failed to bring smiles to government officials Sunday.
One would expect that such claims would portray Vanunu as a man with a credibility problem, but as far as the defense establishment is concern, the former nuclear technician still has secrets to reveal and a declared goal of ending Israel's nuclear program. He shouldn't be talking to the media and is actually barred from meeting with foreigners.
Nevertheless, the London-base al-Hayat published Sunday an interview is claims it had with Vanunu. According to the interview which appeared in its Arabic supplement Al-Wassat, Vanunu said that according to "near-certain indications", Kennedy was assassinated due to "pressure he exerted on then head of government, David Ben-Gurion, to shed light on Dimona's nuclear reactor."
"We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries," Vanunu was quoted as saying. "What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions."
Vanunu also said that the reactor in Dimona, where he worked, could become a second "Chernobyl." He said that an earthquake could cause fissures to the core and that would cause a massive radiation leak threatening millions.
Vanunu warned that Jordan should test the residents along the border with Israel for exposure to radiation and give them pills just like Israel decided to do for its citizens. Vanunu also criticized the visit to Israel early this month by the head of the Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed el-Baradei.
"He (Baradei) should have refused to have visited Israel (because) he was not allowed to inspect the nuclear reactor," Vanunu said.
According to al-Hayat, Vanunu now lives "with his Palestinian friends" in east Jerusalem.
It was not clear how al-Hayat did the interview, which the publication claimed with the first Vanunu has granted to a newspaper since his release from Ashkelon prison last April. Vanunu has been barred from granting interviews to foreign media.
But until now, no steps were being planned against Vanunu.
"The statements that Vanunu made will be examined and if it is determined that he violated the law or his restrictions, then steps against him will be considered," a Justice Ministry statement said.
Defense officials Sunday refused to discuss Vanunu's latest interview. But they have in the past expressed concern that Vanunu's comments, as nonsensical as they may be, would be dangerous since it would be taken as credible.
"It's a question of time until he incriminates himself. This was not the objective. If he's arrested it won't be over nonsense. If he's detained then it'll be for real," a security official said. "Vanunu is still obligated to state secrecy."
"If he gives an interview and talks about prison conditions, that's OK. But if he moves on to the Dimona reactor, then that's off limits. Don't worry, we'll known," the official said.
The official said that the security establishment is opposed to him giving interviews because "even his nonsense can get us into trouble."
Still, these comments were better than they hoped for. Claims that Israel was behind JFK's 1963 assassination can totally discredit Vanunu. "The opinions on Vanunu are divided," said Ra'anan Gissin, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Some say let him speak and it adds to the ambiguity policy, while others say the more he speaks the more he raises tensions, particularly in the current atmosphere."
Gissin said that serious people understood that Vanunu was speaking nonsense and his comments on JFK were not worthy of a reaction.
"This is something you would expect from (Yasser) Arafat," Gissin said.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/457829.html
Vanunu to be questioned on possible parole violation
By Yuval Yoaz, Roni Singer, and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is to be questioned by police in the coming days, in connection with a possible violation of the terms of his release from jail.
An interview to foreign media given by Vanunu is in contravention of one of the conditions of his release in April 2004 after a term of 18 years for revealing details of Israel's nuclear program to a British newspaper.
The restrictions include a ban on speaking to the media and travelling abroad.
Vanunu will be questioned by a special team of Israel Police, the Shin Bet security service and the State Prosecution, Israel Radio reported Thursday.
On Monday, the High Court of Justice rejected Vanunu's petition against these restrictions.
The court ruled there was no doubt Vanunu was willing to expose classified information regarding the Dimona reactor and is as determined as ever to do so. This backed prosecution claims that Vanunu is still a security risk and has shown he is willing go public with any more information he can find.
In his defense, Vanunu said he had disclosed all material in his possession about Israel's nuclear capabilities and there was therefore no justification in restricting him beyond his prison sentence.
Two interviews have so far been published this week with Vanunu in the foreign press.
In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic weekly Al-Wassat, Vanunu is quoted as saying "Israel possesses between 100-200 nuclear weapons including a neutron bomb and hydrogen bombs." He is also quoted as saying that are "near-certain indications" that Israel was behind the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
In an interview publisher Sunday with the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, Vanunu is quoted as saying that the Dimona nuclear reactor endangers the lives of millions throughout the Middle East.
Vanunu told the paper that a strong earthquake in the region may crack the reactor, causing radioactive leakage that would result in the death of millions.
Vanunu also told the paper that the Jordanian government should prepare for possible leaks from the reactor, just as Israel has plans to distribute iodine anti-radiation pills to residents living close to the nuclear reactor in Dimona.
He said that Jordanians living close to the border with Israel should be examined for possible nuclear radiation, explaining that the Hashemite Kingdom is particularly at risk from the reactor as it operates mainly when "the wind blows toward Jordan."
He said he does not believe that the United States and European nations will pressure Israel into revealing the full extent of its nuclear capabilities.
Vanunu also took the opportunity to blast United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed El Baradei for visiting Israel earlier this month and not putting any pressure on it to open up its nuclear program to international inspection.
"He should have done here what he did in Iraq," he was quoted as saying.
Bilge.
I think the Juws shot JR Ewing, also.
There's something about Big D, I suppose.
So don't go there if the Juws hate you!
Looks like I picked the wrong day to take my tinfoil hat to the cleaners.
Looks like over ten different organizations/people were involved in the assassination. Surprised half of them didn't get killed in the crossfire. ;>
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/israel/documents/exchange/index.html
The Kennedy/Ben Gurion/Eshkol Nuclear Exchange
Documents
Document 1. On 5 July, less than ten days after Levi Eshkol became prime minister, Ambassador Barbour delivered a 3-page letter to him from President John Kennedy. Not since President Eisenhower's message to Ben Gurion, in the midst of the Suez crisis in November 1956, had an American president been so blunt with an Israeli prime minister. Kennedy told Eshkol that the American commitment and support of Israel 'could be seriously jeopardized' if Israel did not let the United States obtain 'reliable information' about Israel's efforts in the nuclear field. In the letter Kennedy presented specific demands on how the American inspection visits to Dimona should be executed. Since the United States had not been involved in the building of Dimona and no international law or agreement had been violated, Kennedy demands were indeed unprecedented. They amounted, in effect, to American ultimatum.
Source: Israel State Archive, Jerusalem
For more information: Israel and the Bomb, 153-162.
A clear case of demonic possesion.
/sarcasm
I never let my "Reynolds Extra Strength" out of the house..
I'd grill him about Jimmy Hoffas' disappearance.
Lee Harvey Oyvey?
Who cares, the jelly doughnut is dead and that's good! Anyways, he'd be dead by now anyways!
I seriously doubt that Israel had JFK assassinated. But let's not forget that Israel kidnapped Vanunu from Italy in violation of the extradition treaty Israel had with Italy. Then they tried the man in a kangaroo court run by Shin-Bet and did God-knows what to him for eighteen years. I'm not at all surprised that he's batsh*t crazy. I pity the man and hope that someone can get him out of Israel.
Sounds dubious, though no more implausible than any of the hundred other JFK assassination conspiracy theories.
EVERYTHING that Israel does is "in violation" of some "international law" somewhere. So ****ing what?
In any other country this traitor would have been justifiably executed. Israel allows him to run wild. He is and always has been a freaking lunatic.
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