Miami ? Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega on Wednesday failed again to persuade a federal judge to block France from extraditing him to face money-laundering charges.

U.S. District Judge Paul Huck said he agreed with another judge’s rulings last year that Noriega’s status as a prisoner of war was not an impediment to the French extradition request.

Huck also ruled that France had provided sufficient assurances that he would be treated in accordance with POW rules under the Geneva Conventions, even if the French do not plan to specifically label Noriega as a POW.