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He wants to go back to Panama and He Wants To Enjoy His Grandchildren In Quiet Retirement

Noriega wants to go home.

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega hopes to immediately board a plane for Panama when he is released from prison on September 9, and he plans to fight his conviction back home in the slayings of two political opponents, his attorney said.

I'm sure Panamanians are thrilled at the prospect. Substitute "Saddam Hussein" and "Iraq" and you may understand the desire of many if not most Iraqis to have been finished with their former 'dictator.'