Panama's Noriega is extradited from US to France

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is being extradited to France after serving a 17-year sentence in the US for drug trafficking.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed the warrant allowing the extradition to go ahead.

French officials later confirmed that the extradition was under way.

France convicted Noriega in his absence in 1999 for laundering money through French banks, though it says he will be granted a new trial.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8645584.stm

[pinto]

1. Saw the televised snip of him leavin' on a jet plane.

:thumbsup:

[dipsydoodle]

2. Was he singing

I'm leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again...........:)

[SpiralHawk]

3. The Skull & Boner Bush Family Evil Empire made sure Noriega could not sing,

keeping their former crony, Noriega, on ice for many long years...Republicon occultism, hiding the truth from the light of day. As usual.

[dotymed]

5. No Kidding

Reagan and the Bushes were the money and power behind Noriega. They just want to keep him silent...U.S. puppet

[lib2DaBone]

4. Wonder what's up? Getting rid of the liability?

He was a top DEA/CIA Stooge in Central America... 17 years is a long time to rot in a political prison after he did what was told?

The war on drugs has not changed.. something is up...

[Hawkeye-X]

6. His sentence ended three years ago

for good behavior, but France wants him to do 10 more years for money laundering (he got a new trial, so we'll see), then Panama wants him back, if he's still alive after France.... (20 year prison sentence awaiting for him upon his return to his native land)

Hawkeye-X

[defendandprotect]

7. Poppy Bush should have been in prison with him --

[jxnmsdemguy65]

8. I still snicker some when I remember hearing of Noreiga's "Dignity Battalions"....

although they were certainly no laughing matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_Battalions

[seafan]

9. Poppy, making sure Noriega never talks. It wouldn't be prudent.

Panama's Noriega is extradited from US to France , BBC, April 27, 2010


Here's Poppy with Noriega, in happier times:


(Hat tip to sofa king.)



Bush and Noriega: Examination of Their Ties, NY Times, September 28, 1988

(With one more of many thanks to Octafish)



Poppy Bush: An authorized biography? "...I'd rather not fool with it." , December 2, 2007



And from Eloriel, in this old thread:

.....

Nor, finally, is it in any way a "theory" that the one, single name that can be directly linked to the Third Reich, the US military industrial complex, Skull and Bones, Eastern Establishment good ol' boys, the Illuminati, Big Texas Oil, the Bay of Pigs, the Miami Cubans, the Mafia, the FBI, the JFK assassination, the New World Order, Watergate, the Republican National Committee, Eastern European fascists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, CIA headquarters, the October Surprise, the Iran/Contra scandal, Inslaw, the Christic Institute, Manuel Noriega, drug-running "freedom fighters" and death squads, Iraqgate, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, the blood of innocents, the savings and loan crash, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the "Octopus," the "Enterprise," the Afghan mujaheddin, the War on Drugs, Mena (Arkansas), Whitewater, Sun Myung Moon, the Carlyle Group, Osama bin Laden and the Saudi royal family, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, is:

George Herbert Walker Bush.

And our world has never been the same since November 22, 1963.

[JNelson6563]

12. +1000

[dipsydoodle]

10. Update : Panama's Manuel Noriega 'to fight charges' in France

Panamanian ex-leader Manuel Noriega has appeared before French prosecutors after his US extradition and will fight charges against him, his lawyers say.

Noriega will argue French courts do not have jurisdiction to try him as he is immune from prosecution and because the statute of limitations has expired.

He was convicted in France in his absence in 1999 for money laundering but will face a new trial.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8646214.stm

[MadHound]

11. Can't let the Bush family bagman have the opportunity to spill what he knows

Thus he has to be kept in a prison, somewhere, until he dies.