Guest Blackwater Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Justice Department lawyers asked a federal court Tuesday to extradite former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France when his U.S. prison term ends later this summer. Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is serving time in a federal prison in Miami, Florida. In a filing on behalf of the French government, U.S. prosecutors described a series of violations of French law, including illegal drug trafficking, which support the Paris request for custody of Noriega. The former Panamanian general and military dictator was captured during the U.S. invasion of Panama and convicted under U.S. federal law of cocaine trafficking, racketeering and money laundering in the 1980s. He is imprisoned in Miami, Florida. On Tuesday, U.S. government officials said they had not yet received a request similar to France's from Panama, but the Justice Department document makes it clear that the United States already has made its decision. Noriega's Miami attorney, Frank Rubino, said he would fight the extradition using protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions. He said he wants the "government to follow the the Geneva Convention that says that a prisoner of war, who is prosecuted, shall immediately be repatriated back to his country of origin," said Rubino. Rubino said Noriega wants to return to Panama, where his family lives. Rubino said, "This is something contrived between the United States and Panama because Panama does not want him back." The complaint filed before Magistrate Judge William Turnoff in Miami seeks a formal arrest warrant on behalf of French authorities, and asks that upon completion of his U.S. sentence, Noriega be brought into court. - - - - - I suppose they could circumvent the constitution ... declare old Pineapple-Face a "sex criminal" and keep him in jail even after his (illegal) sentence runs out. They could also arrange for him to slip on a bar of soap and accidently break his skull in fifteen places ... Face it, he was illegally snatched and buried under the jail because he KNEW TOO MUCH about US dirty laundry in Panama and vicinity ... expecially the Bush familys dirty laundry. Arms deals, drug trade, assassinations, machinations and lies. This hasn't changed. When the kangaroo-court sentenced him there was no way to know another Bush would become president and the old Bush would still be alive. This makes him a double liability - embarassment/scandal potential both past AND present. So, the possibility of a jailhouse 'accident', a sudden 'heart attack' or abuse of the law is VERY high. Watch your heinie Pineapple-Face. Quote
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