| | |  Americas & Beyond | June 2009 
US Trial Delayed for Anti-Castro Cuban Militant
 Associated Press
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June 12, 2009
El Paso, Texas - Anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles won't stand trial on immigration fraud and perjury charges until next year.
A federal judge in El Paso agreed Thursday to delay the trial until Feb. 1 so Posada's lawyers can have more time to prepare their case.
Posada, an aging and ailing former CIA operative and U.S. Army soldier, is accused of lying about his involvement in the planning of a series of hotel bombings in Havana in 1997 and lying to U.S. immigration authorities.
The perjury charge is the United States' first terrorism-related allegation against Posada, who's accused by the Venezuelan and Cuban governments of plotting a 1976 bombing of a jetliner. |
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