from the Guardian. The article illustrates what happens to The Empire's puppets when they don't follow orders sufficiently or exhibit too much independence. Noriega, by the way, was just extradited to France. See this. The article lists only 200 ordinary Panamanian citizens who died in the US invasion--I remember at the time many other independent sources estimated around 10,000 of Panama's poorest were listed as casualties, and many homes destroyed by bombing in the poor neighborhoods to capture Noriega.