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Nobel Peace judges pick Jimmy Carter, lash out at Bush.

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| October 11, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Agence France Presse)

Former US president Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for years of tireless effort as an international mediator, an honour the Nobel committee said also contained a direct criticism of the current US administration's policy on Iraq.

Carter, 78, was honoured for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development", the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Friday.

However, this year's award also "can and must be interpreted as a criticism of the position of the administration currently sitting in the …

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