  Norway's Nobel Committee awarded the 2013 Peace Prize to the
chemical-weapons watchdog that gained new prominence with its
recent mandate to oversee the destruction of Syria's chemical
arsenal in the midst of a civil war.  The Netherlands-based
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was
recognized by the committee for its efforts to eliminate
chemical weapons and for its potential role as "an instrument
for solving the Syrian crisis."  Ahmet Üzümcü, the director
general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, speaks at a press conference in The Hague on Friday.
Zuma Press  The Nobel Committee appeared eager to head off
criticism that it was making a symbolic show of support for an
embattled player that hasn't proved its peacemaking ability in
the Syrian crisis.  Committee Chairman Thorbjørn Jagland said
the OPCW's work was directly in line with the will of Alfred
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite who established the Nobel Prizes
shortly before he died in 1896.  He said the O