Word: noriega
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...NATION: Noriega on Trial...
...from South America to the U.S. and Europe. A July report by Washington's General Accounting Office claims that even more drugs are moving through Panama today than before the American invasion of December 1989. That is worrisome for the Bush Administration, which had hoped the removal of General Noriega would curtail drug smuggling through Panama...
...Noriega's arrest did disrupt the Panamanian operations of Colombia's Medellin cartel, which allegedly paid the general millions of dollars for passage through the isthmus. But the unexpected result, U.S. experts say, is that the rival Cali cartel established a base in Panama and has since inundated the country -- along with Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean -- with vast quantities of cocaine destined for the U.S. and Europe...
They didn't know it then, but that was the start of one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of U.S. law enforcement: the capture and prosecution of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and "Maximum Leader" of his country. The Cessna's pilot, captured four months later, provided the first testimony linking the strongman to drug running. On Sept. 3, almost six years after that steamy chase, Noriega will walk into downtown Miami's federal courthouse to face a 12-count indictment. He is charged with taking $4.6 million in payoffs between...
...case, Awan stayed put in 1988 and was arrested by law-enforcement officers investigating the bank's U.S. money-laundering operations. The hapless Awan, who had been personal banker to Noriega and others, was convicted of money-laundering charges with four other B.C.C.I. officers in Tampa last year and sentenced to 12 years in prison...