Miami, June 28, 2006. (RHC-Granma)--A hearing to consider freeing international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles has once again been postponed in El Paso, Texas, for alleged "planning conflicts."
Judge Norbert Garney informed the defense and the prosecutor's office that the hearing set for July 6 would be put off until further notice, reported the Nuevo Herald newspaper of Miami.
Posada, who has been in a Texas detention center since May, is only accused of illegally entering the US despite Venezuela's formal extradition request to try him for his responsibility in the 1976 sabotage of a Cuban jetliner off the coast of Barbados killing all 73 people on board.
His criminal record also includes plotting bombings at Cuban hotels in 1997 plus an attempt to assassinate President Fidel Castro during the 2000 Ibero-American Summit in Panama City.
The postponement came after the defense lawyers proposed a motion on Friday to support a petition of habeas corpus on behalf of their client made back in April, reported Prensa Latina.
Defense attorney Eduardo Soto argues that Posada should be released and granted US citizenship as a reward for services rendered in the US Army in 1963-65 during the Vietnam war and years later as a paid agent in operations in Central America.