... the NYTimes has come out with an article about freed dissident Mordechai Vanunu. What did I tell you? Of course it is only in the NYTimes and it waits to be seen when this release will appear in other US media. My previous posts on this, are finally followed four days later with mainstream mention. Continuing my policy of saving such articles in my files, (just in case it "disappears" in the US media", I've taken some snips from the story today in the NYTimes.

"``To all those who are calling me traitor, I am saying I am proud, I am proud and happy to do what I did,'' Vanunu said in accented and at times broken English. He refused to answer questions in Hebrew because of restrictions Israel has imposed, including a ban on speaking to foreigners.

Vanunu, who converted to Christianity in the 1980s, said he was mistreated because of his religion. He also said there is no need for a Jewish state and demanded that Israel open its nuclear reactor in Dimona to international inspection.

``I said, Israel don't need nuclear arms, especially now that all the Middle East is free from nuclear weapons,'' he said.

The article ends with a curious statement that the Sunday Times in London is "assisting him", perhaps since 18 years ago they never paid him for their interviews and published story on the existance of Israel's WMD's...

"Vanunu will live in a luxury apartment complex in Jaffa, an old seaport and today part of Tel Aviv. Jaffa has both Arab and Jewish residents. Vanunu, who was raised as an Orthodox Jew, converted to Christianity in the mid-1980s.

The Andromeda Hill complex has 170 apartments, and tenants include both wealthy foreigners and local residents. It was unclear who is paying for Vanunu's apartment.

Richard Caseby, managing editor of the Sunday Times, said the newspaper was giving Vanunu ``some assistance,'' but declined to elaborate. He said Vanunu was not paid for the original story."

Read the full story for the background on Vanunu's kidnapping and Homeland Security-style "detention" in my second post, linked above. When you read that story and then this article in the NyTimes, getting a clear picture is not a matter that "Spin" can have it's way with him.