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unforgiveness  April 17, 2004  Mordechai Vanunu walks from
prison en route to a court hearing in 1998.  Mordechai Vanunu
may be released from jail next week after 18 years, but he is
far from free. By Ed O'Loughlin.  Philip Nolan was a lieutenant
in the US army who, court-martialled for a youthful mutiny,
publicly damned his country and said he never wished to hear its
name again.  As punishment, Nolan was forced to spend the rest
of his life at sea, transferred from one US naval vessel to
another, never allowed to return home or even hear news of it.
Lieutenant Nolan is a fictional character, the subject of a
famous 19th century American short story called The Man Without
a Country.  But an oddly similar fate now faces a real-life man
without a country: Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai
Vanunu, who is due next Wednesday to leave prison after serving
every day of an 18-year sentence for treason and espionage.
While Nolan could not return to his home