Syria chemical weapons monitors win Nobel Peace Prize

[politics]

From BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24490925


The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Committee said it was in honour of the OPCW's "extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons".

The OPCW, based in The Hague, was established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.

OPCW director general Ahmet Uzumcu said the award was a "great honour" and would spur it on in its work.

He said the deployment of chemical weapons in Syria had been a "tragic reminder that there remains much work to be done".

The OPCW recently sent inspectors to oversee the dismantling of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons.

It is the first time OPCW inspectors have worked in an active war zone.

The watchdog picks up a gold medal and 8m Swedish kronor ($1.25m; £780,000) as winner of the most coveted of the Nobel honours.

[ClydeCoulter]

Must be nice to have a "high profile" job. Do it right (?) and not be participatory to another war and .... puts you right up there with O.

[surf]

Snowden got jobbed again

[James Madison]

Gore
Barry
The Entire EU

The award has already become a joke so why not.

[politics]

In the same statement the organization has indicated that Russia and the US have failed to destroy their own chemical weapons


The Nobel Committee also criticised Russia and the US for failing to meet an April 2012 deadline to destroy their chemical weapons arsenals.

The OPCW's Ahmet Uzumcu said the organisation had been working "with quiet determination to rid the world of these heinous weapons", away from the spotlight, for the past 16 years.

He said the Syria mission was the first time the OPCW had worked to such a short timeframe and in an ongoing conflict, and that it was "conscious of the enormous trust" placed on it by the international community.

[Paulbot99]

I'd like it if they gave them Obama's.

[LatinsforPaul]

Is this their "reward" for finding Assad's regime as the so called "culprits" of the chemical attack.

[HOLLYWOOD]

They're all garbage today...

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[Lucille]

Nobel Peace Prize: FAIL
http://blog.independent.org/2013/10/12/nobel-peace-prize-fail/


The news that Malala Yousafzai missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize should not be a great surprise. Considering upon whom the committee has bestowed the honor in recent years, it would have been more surprising had they proven themselves able to recognize a peace monger when she’s right in front of them.

In the immediate aftermath of the news, Ms. Yousafzai was invited to the White House to meet with the most war-mongering Nobel Peace Laureate, Barack Obama, to whom she delivered the simple, poignant message:


I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people.

For further evidence that this modest young woman, serene in the aftermath of the Taliban’s attempt on her life, truly deserved such recognition, see also her recent appearance on The Daily Show:

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It's a crazy, mixed-up Orwellian world.

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[TER]

I never thought in my youth I would grow up to see the Noble Prize become such a joke.

[dannno]

Is this their "reward" for finding Assad's regime as the so called "culprits" of the chemical attack.

Sort of like a "hush" reward of sorts maybe.

[AngryCanadian]

Is this their "reward" for finding Assad's regime as the so called "culprits" of the chemical attack.

The culprits are the rebels.