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Taliban suggest "Nobel violence prize" for Obama
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 10 - 2009


Afghanistan's Taliban mocked the
award of a Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama on
Friday, saying he should get a Nobel prize for violence instead, Reuters reported.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was absurd to
give a peace award to a man who had sent 21,000 extra troops to
Afghanistan to escalate a war.
"The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the 'Nobel
Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians'," he told
Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.
"When Obama replaced President Bush, the Afghan people
thought that he would not follow in Bush's footsteps.
Unfortunately, Obama actually even went one step further."
In awarding the Nobel Prize to Obama, the Norwegian Nobel
Committee said he had "created a new climate in international
politics" and praised his promotion of multi-lateral diplomacy
and advocacy for arms control.
"For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to
stimulate precisely that international policy and those
attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman,"
it said.
Obama ordered 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan this year,
continuing a strategy of dramatically ramping up forces that
began in the final months of the presidency of his predecessor
George W. Bush.
There are now more than 100,000 Western troops in
Afghanistan, two thirds of them American. In July, thousands of
newly arrived U.S. Marines launched the biggest offensive of the
eight-year-old war.
The United Nations says 1,500 civilians have died so far
this year, with insurgents killing three times as many as
Western and government forces.
The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan,
General Stanley McChrystal, has asked for 40,000 more troops to
implement an overhauled counter-insurgency strategy.
The White House is still deciding how to respond, and Obama
has described himself as a sceptical audience for the case.


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