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Trial of Posada Carriles Resumed, Attorney's Motions Denied.

CUBA, February 23rd, 2011 (acn) The trial of Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso, Texas, resumed with a testimony by Cuban official Roberto Hernandez.

Judge Kathleen Cardone finally denied Posada Carriles’ attorney’s request to either have the trial annulled or have three of 11 charges accusing Posada of lying to immigration officials dismissed, Juventud Rebelde reported.

Judge Cardone had suspended the trial about two weeks ago to analyze the motions plagued by lies presented by Posada’s lead attorney Arturo Hernandez.

Even though the Judge admitted that Hernandez was right in that the prosecutor had intentionally delayed documents that would supposedly exonerate his client, she decided to resume the process without accepting the attorney’s request.

Cuban official Roberto Hernandez, who participated in the investigations of the 1997 bombings against hotels in Havana masterminded by Posada Carriles, resumed his testimony that had also being objected by the defense.

Hernandez showed pictures of the damages made by the bombings in the hotels Chateau, Neptuno-Triton and Copacabana, where Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo was killed. The images show the stain of blood that belonged to the young Italian.

Posada Carriles, who hired, paid for and trained the Central American mercenaries who planted the bombs, had previously admitted his responsibility in the events in an interview to Ann Louise Bardach for the New York Times.

However, he denied such statements before immigration authorities in 2006, which is the reason why he is currently tried, that is, for laying about his role in the terrorist acts rather for being the actual mastermind of such crimes.

Posada Carriles has also confessed being the author of the blowing of a Cuban airliner en route from Barbados to Cuba in 1976, in which all 73 people aboard were killed.

He is also guilty of several murders in Venezuela, for which that nation has repeatedly requested his extradition. (Cubaminrex- Cuban News Agency)