Indonesian Police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri made the announcement Thursday afternoon in a nationally televised news conference.

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The popular,Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV broke into its regular news programming to make the announcement that President Obama had won the prize,noting that the President had taken "many extraordinary steps in trying to achieve a rapprochement with the Arab and Islamic world."

VOA: standard.2009.10.09