Noriega now irrelevant, say foes

More than two decades after the US forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama as a prisoner and, to many of those he once ruled with impunity, an irrelevant man.

Some Panamanians feel hatred for the former strongman and rejected American ally and a few others nostalgia. But as he returned to his native country last night for the first time since he was ousted, it seemed like few people had any strong feelings at all.