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1. Newsweek 2017年4月14日号

Other key U. S. offcials resigned rather than participate in the war. General FrederickWoerner Jr. , based in panama as head 0fthe U. S. Southern Command,quitmfew months beforehand. Admi- ral WiIliam Crowe, chairman of J0int Chiefs of staff, also resigned. Some 0f the key players involved in the inva- sion went on tO play maJOr roles in the 2003 lraq War. Dick Cheney was the secretary of defense at the time, C01in Powell replaced crowe as the newly minte d chairm an 0f the J0int Chiefs, and Elliott Abrams was the State Department offcial leading the charge against Noriega. Ten days after the invasion, American troops seized Noriega at the Vatican Embassy, and U. S. marshals led him t0 Miami in chains. Only then did offlcials ⅲ Bush's Justice Department realize they needed some justification for the seizure and impnsonment 0f a foreign military leader. They dusted 0 代 a 1988 indictment that implied a criminal liaison between Nonega and Castro. They later dropped that charge and decided tO cobble together more specific claims about Noriega s connection t0 the Medellfn drug cartel. ln 1992 , Noriega was tried and convicted on eight drug traffcking and conspiracy counts in federal court in Miami. His 40-year sentence was reduced by 10 years after a former CIA sta- tion chief and a former し S. ambassador spoke on his behalf. By that time, I had already begun investigating the story. I found more than reasonable doubt about his guilt. The government prosecuted the case with the testimony Of 26 convicted drug traffckers who received plea bar- gains that allowed them to get out ofprison and, in some cases, keep their drug profits. One of them was Carlos Lehder, a neo- Nazi from Colombia, then the mo st important traffcker eve r captured by the United States. He had never met Noriega—and neither had the other dealers whO testified against him. し S. District Judge William Hoeveler, whO tried the case, invited 1 れ e tO hiS home after Noriega S conVICtion and sentencing for a series Of unusual talks in which heexpressed concern about how the trial and verdictwould be judged. ß'l hope, in the end, we'll be able t0 say that justice was served," he said. He and other し S. offcials took solace in the fact that even if the dru conviction was ues- tionable, Noriega was clearly a murderer. But the sources I interviewed raised serious questions about one charge against him. ln 1993 , NEWSWEEK 19 APR 比 14. 2017 Noriega was convicted in absentia in Panama Of conspiracy in the 1985 murder 0f Hugo Spada- fora, a political protégé turned opponent. A key piece Of evidence was that the National Secu- rity Agency had intercepted a remote telephone communication in which Noriega allegedly ordered the killing: "What d0 you do with a rabid dog 凛 . You cut offits head. MuItipIe U. S. sources told me the intercept did not exist. They said the NSA did not have the capability at that time tO capture commum- cafions between Nonega—who was in France when Spadafora was killed—and his minions in the Panamaman jungle. I determined that the charges had been made up part by a Panama- man newsp aper columnist and author, Guillermo Sånchez Borb6n. He admitted tO me he could cite no source for reporting the killing 0f Spadafora ⅲ a book, 加ど Time ビり ra 〃な , that he co-wrote with an Amencan expatnate, Richard KOSter. "lt is a political b00k, not a historical b00k," Sanchez Borb6n said. "lt has its inexactitudes. ” Noriega served more than 20 years behind bars in the United States, then in France and finally in Panama, which won his extradition ln A CHARRED HUMAN TOR O INA BURNED-OUT D A HEAP OF CORPSES FEST RING IN AN OPEN ROOM E CITY MORGUE. 2011. I cannot say that he did not commit crimes, including murders, although he told me any kill- mg on his watch tOOk place in the course Of mil- itary operations 、一 Nor can I sayhe never allowed drugs tO be dealt in panama, nor would I ever say that he was an enlightened leader. I can say that the charges against him in the United States were very thin. I also conc udedfthattowhatever degree Noriega was guiltY' this was a matter for Panama to determine, not the United States. ロ P A G E 0 N E / P A N A M A 3 AT T CAR I SA