Clear way for Manuel Noriega's extradition to France, U.S. asks

Source: Associated Press

The U.S. government is asking a Miami federal judge to clear the way for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to be extradited to France on money-laundering charges.

Prosecutors are asking U.S. District Judge Paul Huck to lift a stay blocking Noriega's extradition now that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Noriega's appeals.

Noriega attorney Jon May said Tuesday he will ask the high court on Feb. 19 for a rehearing based on a dissent by Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia. May says Noriega should not be extradited while that request is pending.

Noriega wanted to return to Panama after his sentence on U.S. drug charges ended in September 2007. Noriega claims as a prisoner of war he should be sent home.


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I think there would be a lot of Bushies in jail.

The reason we had to drop everything we were doing an invade Panama. It was because Noriega was telling the international community that the CIA and George Bush were his best cocaine customers. At that time everyone thought he was talking about Sr and laughed it off. Now that the world has seen Jr. I don't think would be laughing any more.

What would he have to say now that he didn't say back then?

Noriega is not a good guy, but we swooped into a sovereign country and brought him to our country to arrest him on crimes he committed while never stepping foot on US soil. Now that we are done with him, France wants a shot at him too? WTF?

Isn't there a point where the crimes you do in your own country should be the business of your country?

the major issues against noriega were refusing the escuela de las americas use for (el salvadoran? honduran? cannot remember now) training by the US, and the death of William Cayce.

Do you know what any or all of the above are?

Manuel Noriega, known in the demonizing propaganda blitz prior to our invasion as "pizza face", succeeded Omar Torrijos, who was murdered by plane crash a month after the leader of Ecuador, Jaime Roldos similarly was murdered by plane crash. Both of these patriots had stood up to the corpotocracy's exploitive machinations while their successors were ready to "play ball".
Torrijos had recently signed an agreement with Jimmy Carter to get the Canal Zone returned in 1999 and Roldos was the Hugo Chavez of Ecuador, who was against the oil companies exploiting the Amazon. Both of these heroes successors were in the pocket, controlled by the USA. This is all explained in John Perkins, CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN.

Noriega's term in jail was supposed to be finished in September of 2008 but after murdering perhaps as many as 2 or 3 thousand Panamanians to silence Noriega then, e is never going to be allowed to be free again. The USA is currently detaining Noriega illegally, but that's how we roll, and have for a long time.

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