Al Jazeera and Bradley Manning Up For Nobel Peace Prize

Bradley Manning is escorted from a courthouse in Fort Meade Photo: AP

WARNING! You may need a large bucket close by as you read this: on the other hand, it will come as no surprise, looking at recent past recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. (...)

A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said on Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and US soldier and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list.

10:36AM GMT 27 Feb 2012

"As always, there are the usual 'nominees' and some newcomers, some famous and some unknowns, hailing from the four corners of the world," the head of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, told AFP.

Among the people known to have been nominated for this year's prize are former US president Bill Clinton, ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl (ex Hitler Youth member and prime mover for the EU/Fourth Reich) who led his country's reunification process (...), and Ukraine's ex-premier and now jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

 Also on the list is jailed US soldier Manning, who has been charged with 22 counts in a US military court for turning over a massive cache of classified US documents to anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

Yet others include US political scientist Gene Sharp, known for his theory of non-violent resistance which inspired some of the key figures behind the Arab Spring, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki who was brought to power in 2011 by the revolution in his country, and television news channel Al-Jazeera.
The winner or winners will be announced in October.

From here.