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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Obama gets no Nobel wake-up call

OSLO | Fri Oct 9, 2009 6:48am EDT

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama did not get the customary phone call from the Norwegian Nobel Committee to tell him he had won this year's Peace Prize, the committee's chief Thorbjoern Jagland said on Friday.

"To wake up a president in the middle of the night is not something you should do," Jagland told reporters. Usually, the laureate is telephoned from Oslo an hour or so before the announcement at 0900 GMT (5 a.m. Washington time).

Jagland said the five-member committee also feared that the name of the winner would leak out before it was officially announced in Oslo, as has sometimes happened in the past.

(Reporting by Aasa Christine Stoltz; editing by David Stamp)
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