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Israel nuke whistleblower Vanunu freed

ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been freed after serving an 18-year prison term for revealing secrets that exposed Israel as one of the world's top atomic powers.

Waving and flashing V-for-victory signs, Vanunu was greeted outside Ashkelon's Shikma Prison on Wednesday by dozens of cheering supporters who hailed him as a "peace hero". An equal number of counter-demonstrators branded him a traitor.

Vanunu, 49, said he was proud of what he had done and had no more secrets to reveal.

He also said he had suffered "cruel and barbaric treatment" at the hands of Israel's security services. He said Israel did not need nuclear weapons and he called for international inspection of its Dimona reactor.

"I am proud and happy to do what I did. I am very glad that I succeeded to do what I did. I don't have any secrets...since the article was published there are no more secrets," the former nuclear technician said in a statement at the gates of Ashkelon prison.

"Israel doesn't need nuclear arms, especially now that all the Middle East is free from nuclear arms... My message today to all the world is open the Dimona reactor for inspections," he said.

Fearing he could reveal more secrets, the government put Vanunu under close police surveillance and slapped restrictions on his movements, including a one-year ban on travel abroad.

Vanunu leaked pictures and details of the top-secret Dimona nuclear reactor to the Sunday Times in 1986, leading independent experts to conclude that Israel had amassed from 100 to 200 nuclear warheads.

His revelations parted the veil on Israel's official policy of "nuclear ambiguity" and its cryptic pledge that it would not be the first to introduce atomic weapons to the Middle East.

A female agent of Israel's Mossad spy agency lured Vanunu from London to Rome, where he was abducted. He was convicted of treason in a closed-door trial and sentenced to 18 years in prison, much of it spent in solitary confinement.

Now gray-haired, Vanunu will reportedly live in a luxury apartment complex in the southern Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Jaffa close to a church where the Christian convert can attend prayers.

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