Cubans' testimony delayed in trial of ex-CIA agent

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Cubans' testimony delayed in trial of ex-CIA agent
By WILL WEISSERT


EL PASO, Texas — A Cuban medical examiner and an Interior Ministry investigator set to take the stand in the perjury trial of an elderly ex-CIA agent and anti-communist militant had their testimonies delayed at least one day after the defense raised a series of complex objections Tuesday.

Luis Posada Carriles, 82, is accused of lying to federal authorities during immigration hearings in El Paso and faces 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud. Prosecutors say he made false statements about how he sneaked into the U.S. in March 2005, and also failed to acknowledge planning a series of bombings of Havana hotels and a top tourist restaurant between April and October 1997 that killed an Italian national and wounded about a dozen other people.

Cuban medical examiner Ilena Vizcano Dime and Lt. Col. Roberto Hernandez Caballero of the island's powerful Interior Ministry are ready to testify about the death of Fabio di Celmo, the Italian tourist killed when a bomb tore through the lobby bar at the Copacabana Hotel in Havana's spiffy Miramar neighborhood.

Prosecutors may also summon a third Cuban police official to provide more details on Di Celmo's death.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/cubans-testimony-delayed-in-830951.html

[Billy Burnett]

1. Cubans in Cuba can't be trusted.

Only Cuban exiles who support CIA trained exile terrorists can. :crazy: