Posted on 10/10/2008 2:19:34 AM PDT by marthemaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martti_Ahtisaari
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Fifty bucks to anyone who had heard of this guy before this morning. Guess the committee didn’t want to PO the Chinese by naming a dissident....
Methinks you’d go broke pretty quick - although the Balkans are fading back into their historical obscurity, Ahtisaari was a big player there in the last couple of years, and was notable enough to garner his own keyword here on FR.
Please Freepmail me your contact info, I could use the $50. You forget that there are a number of Finno-American Freepers around.
Disgusting choice—but then again Nobel commnittees are in business to make disgusting choices.
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