Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has again asked to be removed from a list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees, the head of the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Institute said Wednesday. “He has written letters to us this year and last year also, where he stated explicitly that he did not want to be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Nobel Institute Director Geir Lundestad told the German Press Agency DPA. Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who was jailed for leaking details of Israel’s nuclear program to a British newspaper in 1986, cited that he did not want to be “associated ” with Shimon Peres, a former Nobel Peace Prize laureate and current president of Israel. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152034.html