EX STRONG MAN FILES IN TO JAIL

EX-PERUVIAN president Alberto Fujimori is behind bars back home, facing charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings.
It was a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
The plane carrying the 69-year-old landed in a heavy mist at Lima's Las Palmas air force base, a day after Chile's Supreme Court authorised his extradition.
He was flown by helicopter to a police base, frustrating some 700 supporters outside the police air terminal across town.
"We have come to welcome Fujimori, to tell him that we are with him," said his pregnant daughter Keiko, who was elected to Congress in 2006.
Mr Fujimori faces a possible life sentence on charges that he organised a death squad that killed 25 people, bribed congressmen and journalists, kidnapped critics and bought the silence of Vladimiro Montesinos, his chief adviser, with $15 million of taxpayer money.
The most serious charges are that he sanctioned the killing of 15 ordinary citizens enjoying a chicken barbecue and the kidnap and murder of a professor and nine university students.
He is being held in a small room without TV but with access to newspapers.
The extradition has provoked reactions ranging from elation to indignation.
Some believe he should be tried for his controversial crackdown on Shining Path rebels and for alleged corruption in his 1990-2000 rule.
But he was widely admired for ushering in economic stability and defeating Shining Path. A recent poll showed 23 per cent of Peruvians wanted to see him back in politics.
Some worry his return could provoke turmoil in a country emerging from decades of political and economic chaos.
Mr Fujimori left Peru in 2000 for a summit and then shocked the nation by faxing in his resignation from Japan, as scandals began to envelop his government. Two years ago he made a surprise trip to Chile, announcing he planned to run in 2006 elections.
He was put under house arrest and has since been trying to avoid extradition.
Mr Fujimori, who calls the charges politically motivated, said before his departure he had a clear conscience.
He said "Fujimorismo" would continue either through him or Keiko, who was the highest vote-getter in last year's congressional elections and who had "what it takes" to be president.