Spymaster and Archterrorist: strangers in the night

Here's something you won't see everyday. Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former intelligence chief sat with his one-time nemesis Abimael Guzman, the leader of the bloodthirsty Shining Path guerrilla group. As you can see here they're watching a video of Frank Sinatra performing My Way.

Montesinos presented the video yesterday during the trial of former president Alberto Fujimori apparently in an attempt to "de-mystificate" the terrorist leader.

The bliss moment took place at the Callao naval base where the two are locked up for their respective crimes. Watching the video with them is Elena Iparraguirre, Guzman's current wife who was captured with him in 1992.

Sinatra was the favourite of Augusta Latorre, Guzman's first wife whom the present Mrs Guzman is rumoured to have murdered with his sayso.

Between the two, Montesinos and Guzman, (or more accurately the Peruvian state and Shining Path) are responsible for the death of some 70,000 people, most of them impoverished peasants.