CHILE: COURT UPHOLDS PINOCHET INDICTMENT The Supreme Court upheld a judge's ruling last month that Chile's former dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, is competent to stand trial on charges of murder and kidnapping stemming from his role in Operation Condor, a joint campaign set up by South America's right-wing military dictatorships in the 1970's. In 2001, General Pinochet, 89, was charged in connection with another case of human rights abuses but escaped a trial when his lawyers maintained he was mentally and physically unfit and the Supreme Court upheld that argument after doctors determined he was suffering from what they called "mild dementia," or senility. Larry Rohter (NYT)
Libya has oil, so we can forgive the perpetrator of PanAm 103 & the bombing of the La Belle disco.