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Jury Listens to Posada Carriles’s Lies in Trial.

CUBA,  January 19th, 2011.- Evidences of lies by international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles were presented in the federal court of El Paso, Texas, in a trial that could last for four to eight weeks.

According to the U.S. media outlets, among Tuesday testifiers in the trial was Gina Garrett-Jackson, National Security attorney who interrogated former CIA agent Posada Carriles for entering the U.S. illegally.

Garrett-Jackson participated in immigration hearings on which Posada Carriles lied under oath, which is the reason why he is now facing charges of perjury, obstruction and fraud on his naturalization process, says a PL report.

Posada Carriles must answer before a 12-member jury for having lied about how he entered the U.S. and his participation in the explosion of bombs in hotels in Havana.

Members of the jury listened to recordings of the 2005 trial on which Posada Carriles spoke about how he had arrived in Texas, which do not coincide with the prosecution’s versions.

In the recording presented to the jury, Garrett-Jackson grilled Posada Carriles about his participation in the Havana attacks of 1997 that killed young Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo.

She also interrogated him about his interviews to The New York Times in 1998 in which he accepts his responsibility for the attempts.

Contrary to that fact, in the immigration hearings Posada Carriles denied having been involved in the terrorist attacks and said he didn’t know anything about the events for which he took on responsibility in the interview. He added that the Posada Carriles added that interview had been made in English and noted that he doesn’t understand the language; however, reports by the CIA, for which he worked for 25 years, say Posada Carriles is fluent in English.

After themed-air blowing of a Cubana airliner off Barbados in 1976 that killed 73 people, Posada Carriles was captured and taken to prison in Venezuela. He managed to escape in 1985 with CIA logistical and financial support.

The Venezuelan government has been asking for the extradition of the terrorist for years based on International Laws including an extradition treaty signed between Venezuela and U.S. in 1922.  (Cubaminrex-Cuban News Agency)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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