If Noriega was such a nasty piece of work I wonder why the CIA snuggled up to him for so many years? He was also the most famous graduate of the school of the Americas. This was later given a cosmetic name change no doubt for the same underlying reasons that Windscale was transmogrified to Sellafield in the UK. Perhaps Noriega should have tried the same magic and put himself on the side of the angels. Sadly operation Nifty Package did a wall of Jericho number on him instead.