Vanunu asks foreign state for asylum

THE whistleblower who alerted the world to Israel’s nuclear weapons programme last night urged a foreign country to grant him asylum.

Mordechai Vanunu, who was released from prison in April after serving 18 years for treason, said that his life was in danger.

“I am ready to go to any state that will give me asylum or a passport to leave the country. I want to go abroad immediately.