Peace winner wants prison pardons

Iran's first ever Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, wasted no time in pursuing her bold fight for human rights, calling for the release of political prisoners in her homeland but warning the United States not to intervene.

Just hours after becoming the first Muslim woman to win the prestigious accolade, Ebadi also spoke out against rights abuses around the world, taking aim at the US occupation of Iraq and describing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an unequal war of "stones against weapons".

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In a direct swipe at the United States -- which regards Iran as part of an "axis of evil" and accuses it of secretly building nuclear weapons -- Ebadi came out against foreign intervention in her country.

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Ebadi also criticised the situation in Iraq under the US-led occupation since the war to topple Saddam Hussein.

"Today in Iraq, people have no drinking water or electricity. Without these basic needs how can you have human rights?" she said.




Hmm - A woman in what is "supposed" to be a "bad" country get's a Nobel Peace Prize

and the Pope doesn't

WAKE up GeeDubya !

(I know - wishful thinking)

(sigh)