Taliban Statement on Awarding of Nobel Prize to Barack Obama: 'As for The Afghans, They Did Not Expect Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, to Flare Up the War in the Country; Nor Alfred Nobel [the Founder of Nobel Prize] Would Ever have Agreed to Give Peace Prize to a Person Who is Fanning Flames of War Rather than Spreading Fraternity and Peace'

The Taliban in Afghanistan have released a statement criticizing the Nobel Prize Committee for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, saying that the committee chose him ''not for any concrete accomplishments but for his inspirational words.'' ...

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