Noriega goes on trial in France

Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega today began speaking in a Paris courtroom in a trial that could send him to jail for another decade after 20 years in US custody.

Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega today began speaking in a Paris courtroom in a trial that could send him to jail for another decade after 20 years in US custody.

Noriega is accused in France of laundering cocaine-trafficking profits through French banks.

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