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France Sentences Manuel Noriega to 7 More Years
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (July 7) -- Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was sentenced to seven years in a French prison today for laundering Colombian drug money in France during the 1980s. The court will also seize about $2.9 million of money that has been frozen until now in Noriega's French bank account. After the verdict, Noriega, who was incarcerated in Florida for 17 years in cells so comfortable that one was called the "presidential suite," was returned to La Sante prison in the south of Paris, where his fellow inmates include Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan terrorist better known ...
Panama's Ex-Dictator Noriega Stands Trial in France
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 28) -- Just two months after being extradited from the U.S. -- where he had served more than 20 years in jail -- ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is now facing another lengthy stretch in jail. The former Central American strongman, 76, today went on trial in Paris, accused of laundering Colombian drug money through French bank accounts. If found guilty, Noriega could go down for another 10 years. Eyewitnesses reported that the aging general -- who ruled Panama from 1981 to 1989, when he was deposed by an American invasion -- looked frail and sick as he started his testimony in ...
US Sends Manuel Noriega, 76, to Stand Trial in France
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 26) -- Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian military dictator who has spent the past 20 years behind bars in the United States, was extradited to France today. Noriega, now 76, was placed on Air France Flight 695, which departed Miami for Paris at 5:46 p.m., CBS News reported. The one-time military strongman was handcuffed and accompanied by federal marshals. WSVN-TV / AP Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, wearing hat, right, arrives at Miami International Airport in Miami to board a flight to Paris on Monday. Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ...
Housing and Trade Next Up for Admin., House
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIt was a busy day on Capitol Hill yesterday. While most were focused on the Senate side of the Capitol for the Iraq hearings with Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, The Bush Administration and the House of Representatives were setting their sights on the housing and trade markets. President Bush formally transmitted the Colombia Free Trade Agreement to Congress for its consideration, while the House was taking up its version of legislation introduced in the Senate last week to help ease the volatile housing market.On trade, the president held a White House event attended by ...
John SIDNEY McCain was Born in Panama!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFrom the muckraking International Herald Tribune comes confirmation of what many have suspected for a long time: John SIDNEY McCain is a one man sleeper cell from Panama. Oddly, no one seems to have noticed the fact that McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, which technically makes him ineligible to be elected president, maybe:McCain's likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared ...
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