Appeals court orders Cuban militant to stand trial
© 2008 The Associated Press
Aug. 14, 2008, 4:04PM
EL PASO, Texas — A federal appeals court has ordered Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles to stand trial in El Paso on immigration fraud charges.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Thursday that Posada, an aging anti-Castro militant, should stand trial on charges that he lied to federal authorities in his bid to become a U.S. citizen.

The criminal case against Posada was dismissed last year when U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled that the government engaged in trickery and deceit by using a naturalization interview to build a case against Posada.

Posada is a Cuban-born citizen of Venezuela wanted in the South American country on charges that he orchestrated the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner. He's currently free, pending deportation, in Miami.


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