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DHS attorney testifies in Day Two of Posada Carriles' trial.

UNITED STATES, Jan 14th, 2011.- The trial against the international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles continued Thursday in El Paso, Texas, with concrete evidence confirming the deceit of the defendant's declarations to immigration authorities.

The prosecution's first witness, DHS attorney Gina Garrett-Jackson, spent Thursday testifying on her interviews of Posada in August 2005, soon after he arrived and was detained in Miami.

Reading from transcripts of their three sessions, she told the court that Posada claimed under oath to have entered the United States through the border with Mexico, when he actually arrived in Miami aboard a ship owned by Cuban emigrants.

In her testimony, she said Posada was also under oath when she questioned him about his role in the 2007 hotel and resort bombings that took place in Havana, Cuba.

The prosecution has said Posada took credit for the bombings during an interview with a New York Times reporter.

Late Thursday the defense began cross-examination of the witness.

The trial will continue on Tuesday, giving the jurors a 4 day weekend, but this case is far from over. We've learned the prosecution has as many as 18 witnesses coming from all over the world, including Guatemala and Italy. The defense has witnesses coming from as far away as Honduras.

In all the trial is expected to last about six weeks. (Cubaminrex-RHC)