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May 30, 2004, 08:22 AM
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=526295
Israel attacks BBC 'tricks' in taping Vanunu
Whistleblower insists he revealed secrets to prevent 'second holocaust'
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
30 May 2004
The Israeli authorities' frequently tense relationship with the BBC will take a turn for the worse this week when they complain about the methods used to broadcast a taped interview with nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.
The Foreign Ministry is expected to seek a meeting with the BBC's Middle East bureau chief, Andrew Steele, to discuss the circumstances in which the tape of the interview was smuggled out of the country despite demands that all copies be handed over to the Israeli censor.
Peter Hounam, the journalist who first broke the story in 1986 of Mr Vanunu's revelations of Israel's nuclear weapons programme and who has been making a documentary on him for the BBC, was ordered to leave the country last week after being held for 24 hours by Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence agency.
Shin Bet conspicuously failed to find all the tapes, despite their interrogation of Mr Hounam and the separate detentions of two members of the team from the Magnetic North independent production company, Chris Mitchell and a freelance editor, Sadi Haeri.
Nice to see the righteous indignation of the Israelis when they drop the ball. :D
For details of Hounam's experience and his telling comments, try this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40206000/rm/_40206517_hounam23_sot27_vi.ram
Israel attacks BBC 'tricks' in taping Vanunu
Whistleblower insists he revealed secrets to prevent 'second holocaust'
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
30 May 2004
The Israeli authorities' frequently tense relationship with the BBC will take a turn for the worse this week when they complain about the methods used to broadcast a taped interview with nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.
The Foreign Ministry is expected to seek a meeting with the BBC's Middle East bureau chief, Andrew Steele, to discuss the circumstances in which the tape of the interview was smuggled out of the country despite demands that all copies be handed over to the Israeli censor.
Peter Hounam, the journalist who first broke the story in 1986 of Mr Vanunu's revelations of Israel's nuclear weapons programme and who has been making a documentary on him for the BBC, was ordered to leave the country last week after being held for 24 hours by Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence agency.
Shin Bet conspicuously failed to find all the tapes, despite their interrogation of Mr Hounam and the separate detentions of two members of the team from the Magnetic North independent production company, Chris Mitchell and a freelance editor, Sadi Haeri.
Nice to see the righteous indignation of the Israelis when they drop the ball. :D
For details of Hounam's experience and his telling comments, try this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40206000/rm/_40206517_hounam23_sot27_vi.ram
