The Gary Null Show - Lessons from Prison and Smuggled Nukes - 07/12/12

Reon Schutte has become an international inspirational speaker following his release after 13 years in one of the world’s most renown and brutal prisons according to many international human rights organizations – the Chikurburi Prison in Zimbabwe. At the age of 18, Reon was a member of the South Africa Special Forces and specialized in cross border raids – having fought in 13 countries before being captured while on a rescue mission in Zimbabwe. For the next 13 years he was imprisoned under a threat by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe that he would die in prison. Today Reon travels the world speaking about the most basic moral principles of freedom, the power of our personal choice, perseverance against the worst of odds and forgiveness and acceptance that he experienced in Chikurburi Prison. He is also the author of recent book about his spiritual lessons: Set Yourself Free: Breaking Out of Your Personal Prison through the Power of Choice. Netanyahu legacy of smuggling nuclear materials and the US-Israeli nuclear connection Grant F. Smith is director of the Washington, DC based Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, an independent nonprofit that studies U.S. policy formulation toward the Middle East. Grant launched IRmep was on Capitol Hill as a warning about the grave dangers of adopting a 1996 neoconservative plan for involving the U.S. military more deeply across the Middle East. His research and analysis about trade, law enforcement, and opportunity costs have appeared in Antiwar.com, the Financial Times of London, Arab News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Jewish Daily Forward, The New York Times and specialty publications such as the U.S. State Department's Washington File. Before joining IRmep, Grant was a research program manager at the Boston based Yankee Group Research, Inc. and taught courses in finance, research, and marketing for five years at CESA in Bogotá, one of Colombia's top\ranked business schools. He is also the author of a new book “Divert!: Numec, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of US Weapons Grade Uranium into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program” which is about the smuggling of nuclear material.