Surprise -US court acquits Cuba militant Luis Posada Carriles

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NOT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13021002
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A US court has acquitted a veteran Cuban anti-communist activist and former CIA agent, Luis Posada Carriles, on immigration charges.

US federal prosecutors had accused him of lying to immigration officials, but a jury found him not guilty.

The verdict is likely to anger Cuba and Venezuela, where Mr Posada Carriles, 83, is wanted on terrorist charges.

Cuba and Venezuela also want to extradite him for allegedly masterminding the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1973, which killed 73 people.
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This terrorist murdered one of my friends. She was on her way to Cuba to study medicine.

Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are!!

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1. Another link from yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110409/ap_on_re_us/us_cuban_militant

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But shortly after leaving the courthouse, Posada told reporters that his days of promoting regime-change in Cuba are behind him.
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...District Judge Kathleen Cardone freed Posada and threw that case out, chastising the government for using Posada's hearing as a pretext to build a criminal case against him.

Her decision was overturned on appeal, however, and the case returned to Cardone's court.
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Jose Pertierra, the Washington-based lawyer representing Venezuela in its case against Posada, sat through every day of his trial. He said he hopes the U.S. now heeds Venezuela's call to send Posada to that country to face 76 counts of murder.
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