In 1992, the USA Supreme Court refused to block the extraordinary powers of US US agents to kidnap and forcibly abduct foreign nationals from their own countries to stand trial in American courts, likely to be in contravention of international law. The ruling was in respect of the kidnapping of a Mexican drug trafficker, but also gives retrospective legality to the seizure by the USA of the Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to stand trial in Miami, and the 1987 capture of a Lebanese terrorist on the high seas in the Mediterranean. Within the US, an attempt at extradiction by foreign government must go through the US courts.