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  • Nobel winner says Arab Spring will banish terror

    12/09/2011 5:41:39 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 21 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Dec. 9, 2011 | BJOERN H. AMLAND and KARL RITTER
    OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman says she believes the pro-democracy revolts that have swept the Arab world will help "drive out" al-Qaida terrorists. Karman told The Associated Press on the eve of Saturday's award ceremony that the autocratic leaders that were toppled from Tunisia to her native Yemen created an environment where extremism could grow.
  • Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Trio of Liberian, Yemeni Women

    10/07/2011 7:21:24 AM PDT · by Borges · 6 replies
    The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women's rights advocate Tawakkul Karman. The Norwegian Nobel Committee made the announcement Friday in Oslo, saying the three women will split the coveted award for "their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights." Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland praised the work of the three recipients, saying that "we cannot achieve lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men." Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 72, became Africa's first democratically elected female president in 2005....