Israeli Nuke Informer Details Abduction

[Resistance]

The Guardian

JERUSALEM (AP) - Outlining vivid details about his abduction by the Mossad spy agency, Israel's most famous nuclear informer claimed in a letter published Tuesday that he was lured by a young woman to agents who drugged, bound and shipped him from Rome to Israel.

In his letter, Vanunu said he and the American woman flew to Rome on a British Airways flight. A man who identified himself as an Italian friend of the woman's sister met them at the airport, Vanunu wrote. The Italian man drove them in a private car to an apartment outside Rome, he wrote.

``As soon as I entered the apartment I was attacked by two men who then drugged me with needles,'' Vanunu wrote in Hebrew. ``Under influence of the drugs I went with them to the car. In the car I woke up and tried to cause an accident, but they attacked me again and drugged me.''

Vanunu wrote that when he next woke up they were on the coast. He said he was taken on a stretcher to a commando boat and on to a waiting yacht.

``On the yacht, they held me in a cell tied to the bed with handcuffs and chains for seven days until we reached the Israeli coast, where I was given to the Shin Bet,'' Vanunu wrote, referring to Israel's internal security service.