Nobel Prize to Manning?

Highly unlikely. Or shall we just say, not a snowball's chance in Hell?

The Nobel Prize committee has received a petition that endorses awarding the peace prize to US Army Private Bradley Manning, who is convicted of espionage and facing up to 90 years behind bars for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks.

US anti-war activist Normon Soloman, one of the organizers of the petition, gave the 5,000-page document to Nobel committee member Asle Toje on Monday.

However, Toje said the annually awarded US$1 million prize is "not a popularity contest," adding that such campaigns do not influence the Nobel Committee in its choice.

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"Unless we can speak the truth, then peace-making becomes a hollow exercise of rhetoric rather than reality," Solomon told reporters before submitting the petition.

Former Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan-Maguire formally nominated Manning in June, saying, “I can think of no one more deserving.”

She believes that his leaks “helped end the Iraq War” by hastening foreign troop withdrawals and “may have helped prevent further conflicts elsewhere.”

  RT

And it would be infinitely more justifiable than gifting it to Barack Obama, bomber and bugger in chief, who allots to himself the power to kill anyone anywhere on his word alone.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.