Ex-Panama dictator Noriega suffers possible stroke

[bathroommonkey76]

PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Panamanian police say former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega has been transported from prison to a hospital, possibly because of a stroke.

A statement issued Sunday from the National Police says Noriega had high blood pressure and apparently a brain hemorrhage. He was taken from the El Renacer prison to Hospital Santo Tomas in the nation's capital.

In December, Panamanian authorities said 77-year-old Noriega had limited mobility due to a stroke.


More here:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_PANAMA_NORIEGA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Someday the files will be opened. We fucked this guy over big time.

[Confusious]

2. It's not like he was an angel

You lie down with wild dogs, you get up with fleas.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. He was our guy until he became an inconvenient asset.

[Confusious]

10. I know

I just don't have much sympathy or care about people who knowingly associate with assholes.

Probably means you're an asshole too.

[Taverner]

11. I don't sympathize with him, but I do hope he gets his revenge

The enemy of my enemy, etc...

[rfranklin]

6. That's right, associate with the Bush crime family and you take your chances...

By the late 1980s, the US turned against Noriega. The 1988 Senate subcommittee on terrorism, narcotics and international operations concluded that "the saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States. Throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, Noriega was able to manipulate US policy towards his country, while skilfully accumulating near-absolute power in Panama.

"It is clear that each US government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellín Cartel [a member of which was the notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar]."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/27/manuel-noriega-us-friend-foe

[FarCenter]

9. No, opening the files might "confuse the public".

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Where was H.W.?

[bathroommonkey76]

5. Is that the only picture of him in Dallas? nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. There's a "?."

Lucky to get that one if it's him.

[bathroommonkey76]

8. I was asking because I saw another one

in an article a few years back. It was a blurry photo of a guy who resembled him walking down some stairs. Who knows??

[PSPS]

12. Sometimes people see him (and others) in their toast too.

[MADem]

15. Bingo! nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

19. You're missing a comma.

[MADem]

14. That is not GHWB. He's much too fat. GHWB was always skin and bones--very thin. That man is far

too thick to be GHWB, he is too short in the leg as well, and his facial features are hairline are not right. GHWB's hairline was receding already in the late fifties, and he always had a bit of a pencil neck and stork-like legs. The forehead height is completely wrong as well, as is the set of the eyes. Also, that Mystery Dallas guy isn't the tallest guy in that mix by a long shot, and GHWB was quite tall--in the six foot two inch range. He was taller than Reagan, even though he obsequiously "hunched" a bit when photos of the two were taken together.

GHWB:



Not GHWB:



This is a tiresome and oft-repeated conspiracy theory. Even if GHWB was involved in anything that happened in Dallas, he would not have been so blazingly stupid as to allow himself to be photographed at the biggest crime scene of the 20th Century. If one is to assume he was that nefarious, some sort of string-pulling evil genius, one should also assume that he wasn't a moron, and had sufficient brains to direct minions to do his dirty work.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. He's practically obese...

...minus the obesity.

[MADem]

18. No, he's not obese, he's just too large and too short to be Poppy. nt

[MadHound]

13. Misleading headline,

Should read:

Reagan/Bush drug cartel bagman Noriega suffered possible stroke.

[UTUSN]

16. The B.F.E.E. never lets up. n/t