November 3, 2006, 7:21 PM EST
EL PASO, Texas -- A judge has given the U.S. government a Feb. 1 deadline to provide evidence justifying the detention of anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles.
Posada's lawyers contend the United States is violating a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that foreign nationals who cannot be deported could not be held indefinitely. The high court set a six-month maximum, but Posada has been in U.S. custody at an El Paso detention facility for more than a year.
U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez is considering Posada's latest request for a release.
A former CIA operative with ties to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in the 1960s, Posada has been accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner in Venezuela.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-cuban-militant,0,3595830.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlinesA Feb. 1 deadline to provide evidence justifying the detention of anti-Castro Cuban exile? Like there isn't enough evidence in the public record already?
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