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US winners of the Nobel Peace Prize:

2009: Barack Obama

2007: Al Gore, with the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange

2002: Jimmy Carter

1997: Jody Williams, with Internationa) Campaign to Ban Landmines

1986: Elie Wiesel

1973: Henry A. Kissinger, with Le DucTho (Democratic Republic o (Vietnam)

1970: Norman E. Borlaug

1964: Marlin Luther King

1962: Linus Carl Pauling

1953: George Catlett Marshall

1950 Ralph Bunche

1946: John Raleigh Mott and EmilyGreene Balch

1945: Cordell Hull

1931: Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler

1929: Frank Billings Kellogg

1925: Charles Gates Dawes, with Austen Chamberlain (Britain)

1919: Thomas Woodrow Wilson

1912: Elihu Root

1906: T heodore Roosevelt.

Nobel for Obama 'too fast', says Walesa

AFP, Warsaw

Poland's anti-communist leader and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa expressed surprise Friday that US President Barack Obama won this year's award just months after takingoffice.

Who. Obama? So fast? Too fast - he hasn't had the time to do anything yet," Walesa told reporters in Warsaw where he was attending the funeral of Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the doomed 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi Germany.