Jury seated in Luis Posada Carriles immigration trial

By WILL WEISSERT / Associated Press
Posted: 01/11/2011 05:03:46 PM MST

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A jury has been seated in an immigration fraud trial for an anti-communist militant considered Fidel Castro's nemesis.
Luis Posada Carriles is facing 11 counts of federal perjury, obstruction and naturalization fraud.

The 82-year-old is accused of making false statements in 2005, after he sneaked into the U.S. and was questioned about his past while under oath during immigration procedures in El Paso.

Question-and-answer sessions that went two days with 130 jury candidates produced a jury Tuesday consisting of five men and seven women on Tuesday.

Cuba and Venezuela accuse Posada of planning the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner. Both also say Posada planned a string of bombings of Havana hotels in 1997.

The U.S. hasn't charged him in either matter, however, only with immigration fraud.

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