9/11 Truth Norway: 9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008

From Torstein Viddal;

Dear friends,

this is the auto-translated Google English version of the story currently heading our truth site 9/11 Truth Norway.

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9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008
4 October 2008

Reason for the nomination of
David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to the Nobel Peace Prize 2008
Supported by 10 professors, or current or former MPs

The wars of the 21st century – what the U.S. President has called 'The global war on terror' - are justified with a tragic event: the attacks against New York and Washington 11 September 2001. This event would come to justify pre-emptive war on enemies who seemed to be everywhere and nowhere. From 2001 terrorism was presented as the biggest threat to Western society, and the foremost evidence of this threat, we were told, were the events of 11 September.

In recent years, however, the 9/11 Truth Movement and their outstanding academic David Ray Griffin presented strong evidence that the attacks of 11 September were not carried out by Islamist terrorists, as we have been told, but by a U.S. 'war lite' as an excuse to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq (wars that were already approved). David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have presented convincing evidence showing that this 'war elite' carried out these attacks to establish a new enemy after the Cold War, and to start wars in line with their economic and political interests. We believe the most important contribution to peace in the 21st century is the disclosure of these elite political games and the removal of the false reasons for its aggressive wars. This Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have done in an excellent way. If the attack on 11 September was a U.S. 'false flag operation' to justify wars in the Middle East, the disclosure of that fact should be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. We therefore nominate this David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to share the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.

Since 2001, the major mass media - the major newspapers, TV channels and news agencies - have been instruments of war propaganda. While more and more academics, military officers and intelligence analysts presented a growing amount of evidence that 9/11-angrepene against New York and Washington were carried out by people inside the United States system, not mainstream media reported this information. Despite the fact that almost 50% of the U.S. population is skeptical of the official version of 11 September, the mass media has not presented the background for this skepticism. The regular mass media's inability to safeguard their democratic responsibilities have forced the 9/11 Truth Movement to put their information on the Internet. Despite the corruption in the regular mass media David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have been able to present significant information that could have turned war to peace. This, as we understand it made them the most worthy candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 9/11 Truth Movement began as a marginal group of activists and academics who questioned the official version of the 11 September events. Today, this movement includes about 100 professors, over 200 architects and engineers, 100 former military officers and intelligence analysts, over 60 pilots and 200 survivors or etterlatte after 11 September (see below). The 9/11 Truth Movement also includes former European government members. It includes a former CIA division chief, a former national Etterretningsoffiser and director of the CIAs Office of Regional and Political Analysis, a former Chairman of the National Intelligence Estimates, a former head of the president's daily update (PDB), a former intelligence leader at the Pentagon, a former the leader of the Star Wars program, a former sjefsøkonom for President George W. Bush and a former Deputy Finance Minister and Chief of Wall Street Journal. Many of these people have praised David Ray Griffin's books. The 9/11 Truth Movement has evolved into a larger movement of dissidents who are trying to change the world.

Today we have a peace movement with hundreds of thousands of activists who have turned against the lies, like 'global war on terror'. A significant part of this movement of students, professors, intelligence analysts and military officers protest not only against the war. They have also shown that the United States 'war elite' has stood for acts of terrorism as an excuse for their own wars. It is about an old tactic of 'false flag operations' that have been used as long as wars have demanded reasons for initiation: It allows a secret military force or terrorist attack force one's own military forces or one's own people for an attack war to work as a 'response'. Historically speaking, false flag operations have been used by the British, Germans, Americans, Israelis and even the Swedes. USA started the Spanish-American War in 1898 by attacking their own warships USS Maine in Cuba. In 1962, the U.S. military leadership in a secret document to implement a similar attack against its own warships at Guantanamo in Cuba, as well as to bomb their own marinebase, which would look like a Cuban attack. The document suggested the U.S. terrorist attacks with bombs that explode in American cities and Cuban forged documents to put the blame on Cuba and justify a war against Cuba. President John F. Kennedy approved the plan and was not considered to be unacceptable for the 'war elite'. Two years later, however, was a counterfeit North Vietnamese bomb attack against the U.S. Destroyer USS Maddox in the Tonkin Bay justify war against North Vietnam. A year ago, former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke in the Senate, and he said that the United States Government through adopting a 'provocation in Iraq or a terrorist attack in the United States attributed to Iran' may attempt to justify a U.S. military attack against Iran. Justification of war is particularly necessary in more or less democratic countries, and false flag operations are the standard technique to justify aggressive attack. All new evidence of what happened on 11 September shows that this attack was a false flag operation. When David Ray Griffin published the book The New Pearl Harbor - Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 in 2003-2004, he could point out precisely this fact. Soon the 9/11 Truth Movement was born, and it was a global phenomenon. In book after book, video after video and on site by site, the U.S. 'war elite' has been undressed and revealed by Griffin and his colleagues.

The 9/11 Truth Movement has pointed to the U.S. official statements that the administration was taken by surprise on 11 September, while a large amount of evidence shows that the Egyptian, Jordanian, Israeli, German, French, British, Russian and U.S. intelligence services in advance informed the U.S. lead on an imminent attack on U.S. soil. Some of these were specific about the airlines intervened in September against U.S. landmarks as the World Trade Center. Senior Agents from the FBI and CIA informed their superiors about the impending attack, but to his great surprise was the top management is not interested in more information. U.S. officers said no one could imagine that terrorists could fly passenger airliners into buildings in such a large scale, while the evidence now point to the fact that U.S. Air Force and other U.S. agencies had trained for such attacks for months. In the months that led up to 11 Sept. they conducted several military exercises with the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The official story is not credible.

The 9/11 Truth Movement has also been able to show that the World Trade Center towers were removed with explosives of military type, and bombs planted in buildings. The 47-stories tall Building 7 was removed without it being hit by any aircraft. Over 100 firefighters are talking about explosives in the buildings. Many witnesses are talking about huge explosions in the building's basement. Garage floor in the basement of the North Tower disappeared in an explosion already when the first plane hit the building. Firefighters talked about 'rivers of molten steel'. When the towers were collapsing, the 'volcanoes' of molten steel,' as lava ', under the destroyed towers, and the melting steel was not cold until months later. Experts have said that 'it even burned fires and cream melted steel 21 days after the attack'. Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that the underground fires 'lasted one hundred days'. For several months cream large amounts of molten steel at Zero point on the World Trade Center, suggesting much higher temperatures than the actual melting point (1,560 ° C). Regular fires carbon and oxygen poor carbon fires, as we clearly saw the TV pictures from the World Trade Center towers, will not be near these temperatures. The fact that the molten steel whipped around in the months can only be explained by the massive use of explosives by the military type, or non-conventional weapons. Video and photographs showing massive explosions and molten steel. Specialists point out that steel evaporated. A typical carbon fire can not reach temperatures of over 1000 ° C. To evaporate steel need temperatures above 3000 ° C. The 9/11 Truth Movement has given a great contribution through collecting the evidence. They know now that the attack on 11 September was a mission conducted by a professional military, and the disclosure of this fact is probably the absolute most important contribution to peace in the 21st century, and the most important motivation for giving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 to David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Certain groups in the West has not only been skeptical, but also dismay of the fact that the United States' war elite'could be able to sacrifice thousands of American lives in Washington and New York to create the pretext for wars in the Middle East, and to replace the Soviet enemy with a new enemy after the Cold War. Why would the United States 'war elite' sacrifice American lives, they ask. These groups in the West, said no U.S. elite could be as cynical and cunning. But to replace the Cold War order with a global war on terror has been considered essential for these people. Today we also know that thousands of rescue workers after the World Trade Center towers' collapse has breathed the toxic dust, which has tragic consequences. Far more people actually die of the toxic dust than by the fires and collapse. We know also that the White House instructed EPA pollution audit to give people misleading information - they told the new yorkers that the air was safe to breathe, even though they knew the air was toxic. The White House offered with the knowledge and the willingness of thousands of newyorkere by forcing the EPA to present inaccurate information.

The disclosure of the 11 September events as an 'inside job' interferes not only with the justification of the U.S. aggressive war in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asia, it is also a damper Islamists for the justification of terrorist attacks against Western targets, as Griffin and the 9/11 Truth movement's disclosure of the U.S. 'inside job' can force the Islamist activists or insurgents to understand their own role as pieces in the game of the U.S. authorities. These Islamists will understand that they have been used as useful idiots of the United States 'war elite', which needed these terrorist acts to justify their wars. The contribution from David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement is not only a blow to America's aggressive wars, these contributions are also a very important blow against an Islamist terrorism that has provoked forward or been used to justify the U.S. war against Muslim countries.

In that era the U.S. administration called 'The global war on terror' David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have provided the most significant contribution to peace, and for this they should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.

[For more info - contact 9/11 Truth Norway at the address 'press at 911truth.no'.]
[PS: The final decision of the Norwegian Nobel Institute is announced on October 1oth.]

Let us spread this important idea: A Nobel Peace Prize !

“These Islamists will understand that they have been used as useful idiots of the United States 'war elite', which needed these terrorist acts to justify their wars. The contribution from David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement is not only a blow to America's aggressive wars, these contributions are also a very important blow against an Islamist terrorism that has provoked forward or been used to justify the U.S. war against Muslim countries.”

David Ray Griffin deserves the Nobel peace prize more than any-one I can think of. Last year I hoped and prayed he would be nominated: http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Beeth

It would be a wonderful lift for the hundreds and thousands of citizens and bloggers who have been working to spread his message of the importance of Truth, along with basic science as presented by wonderfully engaged citizens like Richard Gage of www.AE911Truth.org

9/11 Truth brings peace and a better society. Individually it is very liberating for the spirit to not have to cramp itself to “what we are told to believe”, but to go out and investigate it ourselves. I thank the TV for being so poor at informing that it no longer poisons my living room. I thank the news-papers and radios for willfully ignoring the most passionate story of our time, so that I could have some fun and investigate it myself thanks to the magic globally interconnected community on the internet!

Love,
Dr Beeth, General Practioner
Brussels, Belgium

"unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man." (Harold Pinter)

This sounds like a hoax to

This sounds like a hoax to me.

There is nothing hoaxy about it:

for a long time intellectuals in Norway have been receiving an update of the ”war on terror” paradoxes and proofs of ”second agenda”. They are an old nature and truth loving democracy. They also have an enourmous hydro-electric capacity, so they don't need to play shrewd games with their oil wealth.

People get proposed for a Nobel Peace Prize by a team of intellectuals who have given this serious thought.

Groups like www.truthaction.org or www.wearechange.org are dynamic citizen peace-movements pushing for a greater understanding about the powers and thinking habits that lead us to war. The people behind www.911Blogger.com and practically all our links in the left hand column are also worthy co-winners of a Nobel Peace Prize which we would gladly send David Ray Griffin to pick up for us, also in our name, and that of the unknown blogger and artivist spending time to help bring about more consciousness in the world.

The decision to actually Nominate David Ray Griffin as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 must be taken by the Nobel committee, but his name has been submitted, along with the arguments for nominating him, and the support of at least ten Professors and present or former Parliamentarians. We should know more after October 10th 2008, but I think we all agree that this is an excellent development who’s time has come, and it will signal that it is time for more truth in world politics, and in our main stream media.

From now on, let us all consider it the most natural thing that David Ray Griffin IS OUR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE, and the collective consciousness will do the rest !

Why a hoax?

Elaborate.

We heard the same thing a year ago...

What is the source?
This is great news if it is true.

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Hopefully not a hoax

We did hear about this last year, but that would make sense. People who were nominated for the 2008 prizes we nominated in 2007. The committee will make its decision this week and the result will be announced on Friday, 10/10/08, by 11 am Central European Time (1 am PST, 3 am EST). We can only hope that Dr. Griffin was nominated and selected. No one and no movement is more deserving.

Hoax or not

No one I can think of deserves the award more that Dr. Griffin. This man has devoted his entire life to spreading the truth about 9/11. He is a man of peace, love and hope. In my humble opinion he should win hands-down. I will pray that he does. What a boon for the 9/11 truth movement that would be.

More from Viddal;

Hi,

I can assure you that it's no hoax - as some suggest - the papers were handed in to the Committee before the February 1 2008 deadline, so this is one of the 196 nominated candidates.

The source is a copy of the original document, translated to Norwegian by myself, back in February. Because of the usual 'gags' for nominations to the Nobel Peace Prize, we had to sit on it for 8 long months.

Sincerely,
Torstein Viddal

press@911truth.no

Deserved nomination

While David Ray Griffin clearly deserves and has earned the right for great recognition the Nobel peace prize has been hijacked by the political elite for their own ends. I consider it unlikely that an award, which by its nature would have to be reported by the mass media, would allow someone such as David Ray Griffin to have any air time on his own terms and publicly accept his position. Any self respecting New World Order puppet would simply use this opportunity to centralise yet more power in their own hands to 'put down this terrible scourge in our midst. We need stronger measures and tougher laws to deal with those who oppose our way of life.' A goverment sponsored awards party might even damage the movement in the long run, I only want to be respected as a human being, not as a customer or worker or citizen or patriot, just a human. No more laws are needed to further that end.

It reads like a promo piece

It reads like a promo piece for the 'truth' movement. I've never heard of a 'movement' being awarded the Nobel. DRG is one thing but to acknowledge the movement in such a fashion, replete with 911 talking points smacks of self aggrandizement and thus, a bit fishy as they say. Mind you, this is from 911 Norway Truth and written as such they are just likely misrepresenting the nomination of DRG.

Betcha you don't know much about the topic, do ya, Corny?

Lots of people talk about subjects they don't know much about. You won't be the first to do it, Cornelius, but...

Lets' look at the Peace Prize winners since just 1980, shall we?

# 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
# 2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
# 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
# 2004 - Wangari Maathai
# 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
# 2002 - Jimmy Carter
# 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
# 2000 - Kim Dae-jung
# 1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
# 1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
# 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
# 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
# 1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
# 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
# 1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
# 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
# 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
# 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
# 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
# 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
# 1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
# 1986 - Elie Wiesel
# 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
# 1984 - Desmond Tutu
# 1983 - Lech Walesa
# 1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
# 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
# 1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is clearly the exact same type of movement as 9/11 Truth Movement. The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the movement to ban nuclear weapons is pretty similar too.

If true, DRG and Ourselves Would be the Most Deserving

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Well I wouldn't say that

Well I wouldn't say that they are 'exactly the same' per se in that those appear to be organizations with member lists etc. It seems extraordinary to me that a movement would be nominated given its nebulous nature with a variety of facts and individuals. However, DRG is another matter and I'm glad to hear that it's true. I'm not poo pooing this - I just think we should be very wary of any sort of co-opting and infiltrating from the establishment if this is indeed the case.

I will wait till Oct 10. Is

I will wait till Oct 10.

Is that the day the nominees list will be out?

I want to hope just a little

Selection release date

The committee will make its decision this week and the result will be announced (http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/) on Friday, 10/10/08, by 11 am Central European Time (1 am PST, 3 am EST). We can only hope that Dr. Griffin was nominated and selected. No one and no movement is more deserving.

Not officially nominated

Here is the key quote:

"The decision to actually Nominate David Ray Griffin as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 must be taken by the Nobel committee, but his name has been submitted, along with the arguments for nominating him, and the support of at least ten Professors and present or former Parliamentarians."

So the papers have been submitted, but apparently it's not yet an official nomination.

How I hope that DRG is not only nominated, but wins! I could see a three-way nomination with Prof Jones, Richard Gage and DRG, but the key thing is that this could give us serious credibility.

I'm sure the banksters and their partners in crime are working overtime right now to make sure DRG is NOT nominated. May the nominating committee have the courage to resist their threats and bribes!

later...

Just checked the Nobel site -- looks like there is no offical list of nominees, the actual peace prize winner will be announed this Friday morning! So we don't have long to wait!!

The autumn fruit of the Summer of Truth !

Dear Sheila,

Those words were my interpretation of the Norwegian text and the approximate google translation to English.

Torstein Viddal confirms that the submission of David Ray Griffin’s name went along according to the rules of the game already back in February 2008.

He is allowed to confirm here that David Ray Griffin is one of the 196 nominated candidates.

Who will actually win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 will be announced on October 10th 2008 www.nobelpeaceprize.org
We do not yet know, but let us make it very clear who we consider the most deserving candidate!

Let us see what fruit the summer of truth brings this fall!

http://patriotsquestion911.com/professors.html#Beeth

"unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man." (Harold Pinter)

So what would the response

So what would the response from the mainstream media be if he is nominated and does win? Will they then be forced to acknowledge the movement or just ignore it anyway?

I posed that very question

I posed that very question on a site which has been very unwilling to allow discussion about 9/11 issues - would their response be to ban posts if he were to win - this was their reply:

Thanks, Peter. In the absence of startling new, credible evidence, I'm afraid it probably would. We don't make judgements on what is relevant to what we're trying to achieve here on the basis of decisions made by the Nobel Committee.
PeterC

"the absence of startling new, credible evidence"

Me and my brother were watching a video of WTC 7 being destroyed (the one with the firemen in it) and my niece's daughter happened to see it too. She said (in Finnish of course) "A house crumbles". I then asked her, "Can you see what is happening?" (the video was being repeated) She said "Yes. A bomb!"

An 8-year-old girl was immediately able to see what should be obvious to any adult but which many refuse to belive: that the skyscraper's sudden symmetrical demise was the result of explosives.

Feel free to quote.

I spoke to Dr. Griffin.

And it's true.


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?

David Ray Griffin confirms this nomination...

In the end, its peace instead of war that we would all like to see take precidence over our national and international behaviors and policies.

Going hand-in-hand with this, its important that no more false-flag-attacks will ever be used to launch the USofA into any war, and that citizen's skepticism and scrutiny of such suggestions needs to rise IMMENSELY.

Pursuant to these points, I ask again that when we are in the streets conducting public activism, that we first use the tactics of CI..Civil Informationing, and second, that we create some signs, some DVDs, some handouts, and wear some "less black" clothing that ALL commingle "911 Truth for Peace" for a better message.

In doing this, we will allow more peace activists to join us and all of that will then allow for a far greater longevity of the 9/11 Truth Movement. Right now is the time to use this nomination to invite peace activists onboard...in a friendly and welcoming way.

Actually, we should follow many of us Truther's leads, none more important than Cosmos', and begin to call the movement something along the lines of the following:

"The 911 TRUTH for PEACE Movement"....or

"The 911 TRUTH and PEACE Movement"

However, the best name of all would be:

"The 911 Truth, Peace, Justice and Democracy Movement"...

Although this is a long one, it is indeed what we are all about because we need to make some big changes in our governance, in our policies and in our conduct as a country and as self informing citizens.

So, its pefect time to step ahead with some signs of growth, of development and of context propelling us into the next decade's work for the "911 Truth and Peace Movement".

Love, Peace and Progress with:

PUBLICALLY FUNDED ELECTIONS using HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS on a NEW PAID FEDERAL VOTING HOLIDAY [swap out Columbus Day]

...just for starters...

Robin Hordon

Carol Brouillet is also a wonderfull "ambassadrice" of the

"The 911 Truth, Peace, Justice and Democracy Movement".
Watch her 4 1/2 minute political TV presentation here: http://my.ktvu.com/kickapps/_Carol-Brouillet-G-Dist-14/video/352475/6704...

"unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man." (Harold Pinter)

www.truthaction.org www.wearechange.org www.AE911Truth.org Truth makes the difference ! Vote for David Ray Griffin, Carol Brouillet and Cynthia McKinney !

Too much to hope for I

Too much to hope for I suppose.

Truth, Peace, Justice and Democracy mvmt IS THE PEOPLES' CHOICE

The 2008 year Nobel Peace Prize went to a very deserving peace mediator, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari

---- read below an extract from Huuhtanen's AP report -------- article is referenced below

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Ahtisaari for important efforts over more than three decades to resolve international conflicts, a return to form for the prize which has skewed toward global warming and even economics.

"These efforts have contributed to a more peaceful world and to 'fraternity between nations' in Alfred Nobel's spirit," the committee said in announcing the prize.

By selecting Ahtisaari, 71, for the prize, the Nobel committee returned its focus to traditional peace work after tapping climate campaigner Al Gore and the U.N. panel on climate change last year.

"He is a world champion when it comes to peace and he never gives up," said Ole Danbolt Mjoes, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel awards committee.

The award, he said, was in line with recent Nobels to other peace mediators, notably Jimmy Carter in 2002 and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2001.

Ahtisaari told AP Television News that while winning the prize would help his future mediation work, he is looking to other challenges, too, particularly youth unemployment worldwide.

But he also conceded that the decades of work have taken a toll.

"I have to start realizing that I am 71" and maybe it's time to stop "traveling 200 days a year outside Finland."

The secretive five-member committee said Ahtisaari's work across the world — Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East — proved that such efforts can have a profound effect on peace processes.

"Through his untiring efforts and good results, he has shown what role mediation of various kinds can play in the resolution of international conflicts," the committee said in announcing the 10 million kronor (US$1.4 million) prize.

"For the past 20 years, he has figured prominently in endeavors to resolve several serious and long-lasting conflicts," the citation said, mentioning his work in conflicts from Namibia to Aceh, Indonesia, Kosovo and Iraq.

Ahtisaari had been mentioned in speculation as a possible Nobel Peace Prize candidate since 2005, just after he negotiated an end to a conflict in Indonesia that began more than 140 years ago, bringing together the Indonesian government and the leaders of the separatist guerrilla movement in Aceh. He initiated and mediated peace talks in Finland, and a peace agreement was signed in Helsinki.

"He has also made constructive contributions to the resolution of conflicts in Northern Ireland, in Central Asia, and on the Horn of Africa," the citation said.

Speaking to NRK Norwegian TV, Ahtisaari said he "was very pleased and grateful" to receive the prize.

Asked what work he considered the most important, Ahtisaari, the first Finn to win the prize, said that "of course Namibia is absolutely the most important because it took such a long time." He also singled out his work in Kosovo and Aceh.

Ahtisaari was a senior Finnish diplomat when in 1977 he was named the U.N. envoy for Namibia, where guerrillas were battling South African apartheid rule. He later rose to undersecretary-general, and in 1988 was dispatched to Namibia to lead 8,000 U.N. peacekeepers during its transition to independence.

Ahtisaari said he hoped the prize would make it easier to attract financing for his peace work.

"There are always many possibilities. I really hope now that I receive the prize that it makes it easier to finance the organizations that I chair," he said. "It's very important to be able to act properly, you need financing and you never have enough."

Ahtisaari has had a broad career in politics and peacemaking.

A primary school teacher who joined Finland's Foreign Ministry in 1965, he spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York.

In 1994, Ahtisaari accepted the presidential candidacy of Finland's Social Democratic Party and won the election. He did not seek re-election in 2000 and has since worked on international peace efforts.

In 2007, Ahtisaari's office — Crisis Management Initiative — started secret meetings in Finland between Iraqi Sunni and Shiite groups to agree on a road map to peace. Those talks, based on the format of peacemaking efforts in South Africa and Northern Ireland, included 16 delegates from the feuding groups. They "agreed to consult further" and begin reconciliation talks.

"He managed to get 36 senior Iraqis to Helsinki in April 2008, and is now working on a next meeting in Baghdad," Mjoes said of the efforts.

Damien Kingsbury, an Australian academic who was part of the Acehnese delegation during the Indonesia peace talks said Ahtisaari started off "from a very naive position. He was, by definition, pro-Indonesia, supporting the integrity of the state and dismissing Aceh's insistence on independence."

The Acehnese vehemently criticized Ahtisaari's position. But Kingsbury, in a telephone interview from Australia, said he "helped broker an agreement between the two parties that has proven to be sustainable."

Ahtisaari was chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina working group in the international peace conference on former Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993, and was special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on former Yugoslavia in 1993.

Serbia bitterly rejected his attempts to forge a compromise settlement on Kosovo, which declared independence in February, but his blueprint forms the essence of Kosovo's constitution.

----- see http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_nobel_peace for full AP
article written by Matti Huuhtanen reporting from Helsinki, Finland. Associated Press reporters Slobodan Lekic in Brussels, William J. Kole in Vienna and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm also contributed to this report. ----

David Ray Griffin was one of the officially nominated for this prestigeous prize.
It would have been a jolting signal to help the main-stream realize that the 9/11 Truth movement has an urgent and timely message.

I am happy for Martti Ahtisaari's selection, and David Ray Griffin, who was my favored Candidate for 2008, is now my favored candidate for 2009 !

Lets make them all understand in no uncertain terms that the 9/11 Truth, Peace, Justice and Democracy movement IS THE PEOPLES CHOICE FORWARD TOWARDS PEACE !!!!

Love,

Dr Beeth

"unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man." (Harold Pinter)

"How the Nobel Peace Prize was Won" by Gregory Elich

The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner was Madeleine Albright's choice.

Next year I hope it will be time for the peoples' choice!

An October 15th ’08 article by Gregory Elich in COUNTERPUNCH reminds us of an episode when Martti Ahtisaari repeatedly threatened to carpet bomb Belgrade. Apparently, it was Madeleine Albright who had tipped him to accompany Victor Chernomyrdin to meet Slobodan Milosevic and present the NATO's (& Yeltsin's) ultimatum. Ahtisaari simply threatened with massive continued state sponsored terror. He was so convincing, that Milosevic went along with the deal, and still today, the West does NOT understand the injustices and terror that the US, NATO and covert sponsors of the Yugoslav/Kosovo conflict steam-rolled over. Ahtisaari was probably a good man, with true intentions to reach agreements towards Peace.
More durable peace will come when we as a collective community eradicate war profiteers and build solid safe-guards against state sponsored (false flag or open warfare) terrorism.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10573 How the Nobel Peace Prize was Won by Gregory Elich from Counterpunch, Oct 15th.

Read also the review of Gregory Elich's book: "Strange Liberators: Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit" at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10436

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