Others that were on the list
Other known nominations included:
1 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez;
2 exiled Bangledeshi writer Taslima Nasrin;
3 former Illinois governor and anti-death penalty campaigner George Ryan;
4 the group Tiananmen Mothers, which represents families of those killed in the 1989 massacre in Beijing;
5 SOS-Children's Village, a charity that provides homes to abandoned and abused children worldwide;
6 and long-jailed Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu.
The list also was believed to include the
International Atomic Energy Agency,
International Red Cross,
Save the Children,
Pope John Paul II
and former Czech President Vaclav Havel.
I'll be bringing this up at the dinner table tonight for my kids. I'll show them this list and see if they can find someone more deserving on it. As you can see there is.
This lesson will be titled, "The Nobel Pease Prize is now a bunch of crap." Anotherone bites the dust. I am sure glad he invented the Internet or I could not have got this information.
Information from USA Today and The Nobel web site.