Senator-for-life Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte, who in 1973 helped to make another September 11 notorious: * November 25, 1915, + December 10 2006

http://faultline.org/index.php/site/comments/sic_semper_tyrannis/
- links to http://www.youtube.com/share?v=tA7QM89sruY

http://www.beautifulhorizons.net/weblog/2006/12/wanted_a_strong.html
Wanted: A Strong Wooden Stake and Several Garlic Bulbs
"As recently as October, Chilean investigators announced the discovery of 10 tons of gold, worth an estimated $160 million, in his name in a Hong Kong bank."

The Baroness was 'greatly saddened' by his death: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6167351.stm

One comment on the Baroness that might also apply in these circumstances:
http://www.elviscostello.info/lyrics/spike.html#tramp_the_dirt_down

...
Oh I'll be a good boy, I'm trying so hard to behave
Because there's one thing I know, I'd like to live
long enough to savour
That's when they finally put you in the ground
I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down
...

http://www.fullmoontonic.com/epistolario/vision/elvis%20costello%20-%20tramp%20the%20dirt%20down.mp3

Obits
www.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1968953,00.html (quite long & detailed)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/472707.stm
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000302.html [ alternatively, http://tinyurl.com/ym6n6u ]

Obit-Opinions
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2067626.ece - [ http://tinyurl.com/vs8ba ]
http://marccooper.com/pinochet-dead/
http://tomasdinges.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/pinochet-dead/
http://www.slate.com/id/2155242/?nav=tap3

Pix
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6170867.stm

Tags: history, music, online references
Moodiness: grimly happy