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Trial for Luis Posada continues to drag/Monday, 02.22.10

The long-delayed trial of a Cuban exile could be put off again at prosecution's request.

By JUAN O. TAMAYO

The federal trial of Cuban militant exile Luis Posada Carriles, which was scheduled to start March 1, has been postponed for at least three months.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, Thursday granted the prosecution's request for a delay and set May 20 for a status conference to determine whether a new trial date could be set then.

The prosecution's motion was sealed -- kept secret -- by Cardone, so it was impossible to determine why the government sought the last-minute delay in a case that has been on the docket since 2007.

The motion was only one of a flurry of about 40 sealed motions filed in the case since Jan. 1 by several parties involved. Some attorneys described it as an unusual level of secrecy.

Posada stands accused of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with a string of bombings in Havana in 1997 and making false statements under oath in an immigration procedure involving his illegal entry into the United States in 2005.

Prosecutors hope to prove that Posada lied under oath when he denied he was ``involved in soliciting other individuals to carry out the bombings . . . in Cuba.''

A second perjury charge involved his denial that he arranged for Raúl Cruz León, a citizen of El Salvador, to carry explosives into Cuba in 1997. Cruz León, jailed under a death sentence in Cuba since 1997, has confessed that he placed several of the bombs in Havana tourist centers, which killed one Italian tourist and wounded others.

Nine charges of obstruction of justice and false statements under oath involve statements he made to U.S. officials regarding the manner in which he slipped into the United States.

The case also involves lawyers for The Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald, which have fought against some motions to seal documents in the case, as well as The New York Times and Ann Luise Bardach, who interviewed Posada and wrote a story about him for The Times.

Miami New Times

CUBAN KILLER LUIS POSADA CARRILES GOES ON TRIAL

2010 February 23

Blogspot: Along the Malecon

THE WOMAN BEHIND LUIS POSADA CARRILES

2010 February 8

Blogspot: Along the Malecon

LUIS POSADA CARRILES: I DON'T REMEMBER, I DON'T RECALL

2010 Janurary 31

Cuba Debate

LA JUEZA DEL CASO POSADA CARRIES REACCIONA ANTE UN TECNICISMO LEGAL DEL TERRORISTA

2010 January 25

Ledger Enquirer

Cuban -American Leader Seeks New Path

2009 September 12

Miami Herald

JUDGE BLOCKS RELEASE FOR LUIS POSADA CARIRILES INTERVIEW

2009 August 28

El Nuevo Herald

TRIBUNAL ORDENA PROTEGER DOCUMENTOS EN CASO POSADA

2009 August 27

El Nuevo Hereld

NUEVO GIRO EN CASO CONTRA POSADA CARRILES

2009 August 13

Miami Herald

POSADA SEEKS MORE TIME TO PREPARE FOR HIS TRIAL

2009 June 2

 

Miami Herald

U.S. INDICTS CUBAN EXILE LUIS POSADA, LINKS HIM TO BOMBINGS

2009 April 9

 

POSADA INDICTMENT

2009 April 8

 

Miami Herald

SERIOUS LEGAL QUESTIONS LOOM FOR POSADA

2008 February 25

 

CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF A.L. BARDACH

2007 November 15

 

MIami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and U.S. Federal News

POSADA CONGRESSIONAL HEARING

2007 November

 

SBS Australia

PURSUING POSADA

2007 June 23

 

The Santa Barbara Independent

A WATCHDOG, NOT A LAPDOG

2007 May 31

 

St. Petersburg Times

EXILED CUBAN MILITANT GETS A MUTED WELCOME HOME

2007 April 21

 

New York Times

BOMB RESONATES WITH DIPLOMATS, NOT WITH THE BOMBER

Miami Herald

CUBAN EXILE  MILITANT, TWO ALLIES ARE INDICTED

EFE

CHAVEZ ON POSADA TO CASTRO

2007 January 7

The Bergen Record

U.S. PROBE OF MILITANT CUBAN EXILE REACHES FINANCIERS IN NORTH JERSEY



NPR's On The Media

EL TERRORISTA Y LA PERIODISTA

The Washington Post

LUIS POSADA, THE LAW & ME

The Miami Herald
POSADA IS TARGET OF NEW CRIMINAL PROBES

Democracy Now

TWILIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS: WHY THE U.S. REFUSES TO PROSECUTE LUIS POSADA CARRILES & ORLANDO BOSCH

The Atlantic Monthly

TWILIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS

The Atlantic Monthly

A NOTE FROM LUIS POSADA

The Atlantic Monthly

LIFE WITH LUIS POSADA

El Paso Times

ALLEGED TERRORIST ADMITTED BOMBINGS

Miami Herald

POSADA SAYS CASTRO IS PERSECUTING HIM

El Nuevo Herald

PEDIRAN LA CIUDADANIA NORTEAMERICANA PARA POSADA

Santa Barbara News-Press

VISITING PROFESSOR GETS NO JAIL TIME

Miami Herald

U.S. WITHDRAWS SUBPOENA ON POSADA TAPE

Associated Press

U.S. DROPS N.Y. TIMES SUBPEONA ON CUBAN MILITANT

Poynter Online
ROMENESKO: HOMELAND SECURITY DROPS SUBPOENA 

2005 August 9

Miami Herald
POSADA'S LAWYER CLAIMS LACK OF EVIDENCE
2005 July 20

El Nuevo Herald

SOLICITAN DESESTIMAR CASO CONTRA POSADA
2005 July 20/24

KCRW (NPR) - "To the Point"
LUIS POSADA: TERRORIST OR FREEDOM FIGHTER?
2005 June 2
 


The Balitimore Sun
WILL U.S. HARBOR TERRORIST?
2005 May  15

Democracy Now
INTERVIEW WITH A.L. BARDACH ON POSADA
2005 May  9

The Washington Post
OUR MAN IN MIAMI: PATRIOT OR TERRORIST?
by A.L. Bardach
2005 April 17, Sunday

National Public Radio
INTERVIEW WITH A.L. BARDACH ON POSADA
2005 April 14

from Cuba Confidential: Chapter Seven

AN ASSASSIN'S TALE IN THREE ACTS

Random House 

TALK Magazine
FIDEL CASTRO: THE MOVIE STAR DICTATOR
2001 August
  

New York Times
PLOT ON CASTRO SPOTLIGHTED POWERFUL GROUP
by A.L. Bardach and Larry Rohter

1998 May 5, Tuesday

New York Times
A BOMBER'S TALE - PART I
by A.L. Bardach and Larry Rohter
1998 July 12, Sunday  

New York Times

A BOMBER'S TALE - PART I [sidebar]
by A.L. Bardach and Larry Rohter
1998 July 12, Sunday  

New York Times
A BOMBER'S TALE - PART II
by A.L. Bardach and Larry Rohter
1998 July 13, Monday  

New York Times
CUBAN EXILE LEADER AMONG 7 ACCUSED OF PLOT
by A.L. Bardach and Larry Rohter

1998 August 26

Los Angeles Times  Op-Ed
A STARTLING TALE OF U.S. COMPLICITY
NYT on Luis Posada Carriles
1998 June 20


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