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Posada will stand trial on perjury, obstruction charges by Adriana M. Chávez
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone set Posada's trial for Jan. 11. She told prosecutors and defense attorneys that she wanted no more trial delays. In the past, Cardone has said in open court that she expects the trial to last about two months. Posada's trial had been scheduled to begin in March but was postponed. Court documents related to the postponement have been sealed. Before that, Posada had been scheduled to go to trial in August 2009. Last year, a federal grand jury indicted Posada on 11 counts, including perjury, naturalization fraud, obstruction and making false statements during a naturalization proceeding. In 2005, Posada attempted to gain legal immigration status after coming to the United States. Prosecutors allege Posada lied to Department of Homeland Security officers about his involvement in a series of 1997 bombings in Cuban tourist areas that left one man dead in hope of being allowed to stay in the U.S. Instead, federal agents arrested Posada on immigration charges in Miami. He had been held at an immigration detention center in El Paso until his indictment. An immigration judge in El Paso ordered Posada deported in 2005 but stipulated that Posada not be sent to Cuba or Venezuela because of fears Posada could be tortured there. Instead, Posada has been allowed to stay in Florida. Venezuelan government officials are seeking Posada's extradition in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, and government officials in Panama also want to extradite Posada in order to try him on charges that he plotted to kill Fidel Castro in 2000 during Castro's visit to Panama. Posada has denied the allegations. The Posada trial is expected to draw protesters who believe that the federal government has not prosecuted Posada because he is anti-Castro.
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Fijan nueva fecha del juicio al terrorista Posada Carriles 3 de junio de 2010 La Habana, 3 jun (AIN) El juicio por mentiroso contra el terrorista Luis Posada Carriles fue fijado para el 11 de enero venidero, dio a conocer en una audiencia la jueza Kathleen Cardone, del Tribunal de El Paso, Texas. Informaciones publicadas en Granma y Juventud Rebelde precisan que Cardone aseguró que esta fecha es definitiva y no requiere nuevos retrasos, en alusión a las varias postergaciones que ha tenido este proceso. Posada Carriles, autor confeso del sabotaje en pleno vuelo a un avión civil cubano -que causó la muerte de las 73 personas a bordo- y de otras acciones terroristas, será juzgado solo por fraude migratorio y falso testimonio sobre su entrada en Estados Unidos en el año 2005. Sin embargo, el abogado José Pertierra, quien representa a Venezuela en el pedido de extradición del criminal, afirmó en un artículo publicado en el sitio digital CubaDebate, que se han presentado evidencias de la larga hoja criminal de ese terrorista. Se ha demostrado su participación en una ola de atentados con bombas registrados en hoteles de La Habana en 1997 y que causaron la muerte del joven italiano, Fabio di Celmo.
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EL PASO -- Luis Posada Carriles, the anti-Castro Cuban militant and former CIA operative linked to the 1976 bombing of a passenger aircraft that killed 73 people, will go on trial in El Paso in January on federal charges of perjury, obstruction and naturalization fraud.