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MIAMI--Federal prosecutors yesterday unsealed an indictment accusing Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega with accepting $4.6 million to protect cocaine shipments, launder drug money and provide a safe haven in his country for top Colombian smugglers...
...indictment was handed up Thursday, and Noriega dismissed it as "strictly a political act." Legal experts have agreed that it is very unlikely he will ever stand trial...
Witnesses before the Miami grand jury included two former Noriega associates. Jose Blandon, fired earlier this month as Panama's consul general in New York, and Floyd Carlton, Noriega's former personal pilot...
...witnesses, who also spoke before congressional committees, accused Noriega of protecting drug shipments by Columbia's Medellin Cartel in return for expensive bribes, and of providing facilities for smugglers...
...formal indictment may not topple Noreiga, but it will push him into a corner, said former U.S. Ambassador to Panama Ambler Moss yesterday. He compared Noriega to the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier...