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Symbolic Tribunal Tries Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso.

CUBA, January10th, 2011.-A ``people's tribunal'' on Sunday in El Paso, Texas, symbolically tried Cuban/American terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to focus attention on the many allegations of terrorism pending against Posada, although he goes on trial Monday only on perjury and related charges.

Posada faces two charges of perjury, involving his sworn testimony that he was not involved in a spree of bombings of Havana tourist spots in 1997 in which an Italian tourist died, and nine charges related to false declaration in immigration procedures. But he is not charged with the Havana blasts or the many other terrorist attacks and plots to which he has been linked over the past 50-plus years.

One speaker described the 82-year-old Posada, trained by the CIA in explosives in the 1960s, as ``one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history.''

Participants are also protesting near the federal courtroom in El Paso, where Posada’s trial began Monday morning -- more than five years after his illegal entry into Miami, where he was arrested.

The ``tribunal'' held in El Paso's Unitarian Universalist Community Center drew about 100 activists, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others who flew in from Boston and Los Angeles.

Under a white and black banner that read, ``Victims of Terrorist Posada Carriles and the CIA,'' the tribunal lined up photos of about 30 of the 73 people killed when an in-flight bomb explosion masterminded by Posada brought down a Cuban airliner in 1976 killing all 73 civilians aboard.

One of the main organizers of the protest, Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five said the cases of Posada and the Cuban Five were inextricably linked: Posada has been free to walk around Miami while the Five, who were sent to Miami to report on Cuban exile terrorists, linger in jail. (Cubaminrex-RHC)