BBC News | EUROPE | Pinochet ‘brain damaged’: The Spanish press

and ABC reportedly have extracts from the crucial medical report

into the former Chilean dictator’s health which prompted British Home Sec’y Jack Straw to say he intends to allow him to return home. Pinochet, who has diabetes and a pacemaker and has reportedly suffered two recent strokes, is said to have extensive frontal and temporal lobe dysfunction from progressive cerebro-vascular injury. A medical analysis in lay terms explains this.