[NYTr] Noriega Extradition to France Back on Front Burner
 
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:08:31 -0600 (CST)

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[Noriega certainly seriously pissed off the powers that be in the US. 
Seventeen years in US dungeons are not enough for this guy, who turned
on his former patrons in world of US intell-drug-and-gun dealers. Panama
would like him back, too. See more background (15 recent articles) here:
http://tinyurl.com/yuyvdn  -NY Transfer]

sent by MichaelP

AP via Findlaw - Jan 9, 2008
http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110//01-09-2008/20080109082014_20.html

Noriega extradition on money-laundering

    MIAMI (AP) - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega failed again 
Wednesday to persuade a federal judge to block France from extraditing
him to face money-laundering charges.

    U.S. District Judge Paul Huck said he agreed with another judge's
rulings last year that Noriega's status as a prisoner of war was not an
impediment to the French extradition request.

    Huck also ruled that France had provided sufficient assurances that
he would be treated in accord with POW rules under the Geneva
Conventions, even if the French do not plan to specifically label
Noriega as a POW.

    "What more could he ask for?" Huck said at a hearing. "He will get
the benefits he has enjoyed here, as a prisoner of war here."

    The ruling clears the way for Noriega's lawyers to appeal his
extradition to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. U.S.
lawyers say Noriega's extradition will not take place until the legal
process is concluded.

    Noriega, 73, in September completed a U.S. prison sentence for drug 
racketeering and had hoped to return to Panama. He has been in U.S.
custody since early 1990, when he was captured after a U.S. military
invasion of Panama designed to drive him from power because of his
links to Colombian drug cartels.

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