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It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

Posted Aug 28, 07 12:33 PM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Former dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve ten more years of jail time. Noriega has done 18 years in a Miami prison, and will be released for good behavior next month. He faces money laundering charges in France, but had asked to return to Panama—despite possibly facing even more jail time there.

Noriega had sought the right to return to Panama under the Geneva Convention, having been officially classified as a POW. But the same judge who made the classification in 1992 didn't take the bait this time. "'This court never intended for the proclamation of defendant as a POW to shield him from all future prosecutions," he said.

Source Miami Herald

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