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Paper publishes Vanunu trial extracts
An Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth has for the first time published extracts from the trial thirteen years ago of Mordechai Vanunu, the man who revealed alleged details of Israel's nuclear programme.
The paper was allowed to go ahead with publication after a legal petition.
According to the transcript, Mr Vanunu told the court that he wanted to confirm what everyone already knew -- that Israel possessed nuclear weapons.
The former Israeli prime minister, Shimon Peres, who is widely regarded as the father of Israel's nuclear programme, criticised the decision to publish the trial extracts.
He said every country had a right to keep secrets in certain areas. Mr Vanunu made his revelations to the British newspaper, the Sunday Times.
He was subsequently lured from Britain to Italy by a female Israeli agent, and was then kidnapped and taken back to Israel.
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