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SYRIA’S PRESIDENT BASHAR al-Assad has claimed that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a pro-Damascus Lebanese newspaper reported today
The prize, which was given to the global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday, “should have been mine”, Assad said, according to Al-Akhbar newspaper.
Assad made the remark “jokingly”, the daily said, as he commented on the award on Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is working in Syria to destroy the Assad regime’s massive chemical arsenal by mid-2014.
Al-Akhbar also reported that Assad had proposed in 2003 that all countries in the region should hand over all weapons of mass destruction.
But the newspaper did not say when Assad made the comments about the Nobel.
The OPCW and the UN have had a team of 60 experts and support staff in Syria since October 1, while the civil war rages on.
The team started its work after a breakthrough UN Security Council resolution last month ordering Syria’s chemical stockpile destroyed.
The resolution came after a chemical attack in Damascus province on August 21 that killed hundreds of people.
More than 115,000 people have been killed in the conflict so far, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog.
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Good to see this sort of stuff!
In fairness NASA are great at this sort of thing. Their astronauts give loads of their time in ISS to education.
… at this sort of thing too.
@Paraic McDonagh: Nasa ARE great at this. They’ve been faking it since the beginning. So good at it now that it nearly appears real. Pity they can’t push past the 600 mile mile Van Allen belt limitation though. Spoils the whole show.
Fantastic opportunity for these young kids. I am very jealous!
Brilliant for these schools.
Apparently we’re all on a big ball, rotating at a speed of 1000mph and further rotating around a Sun, at 67,000mph. In addition, all of that is hurtling through an infinite universe at speeds up in the 100s of 1000s of mph – yet I feel absolutely zero vibration, lateral movement, or rotational pull from it all.
Do you?
@Patrick Mac: And isn’t it interesting that when the Navy projects their 2″ missile beam across over the surface of the seas boasting up to 60 mile of accurate range, they never see any radius or curvature on the sea plain, impeding their view across the 60 mile span. The rise in the middle across 60 miles should be .45 of a mile. I think one would notice that.
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