Fla. TV anchor testifies in Cuban militant's trial

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tuesday, 03.08.11
Fla. TV anchor testifies in Cuban militant's trial
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Associated Press

accused of lying to U.S. immigration officials about his past talked during a TV interview shown to jurors Tuesday about a string of bombings in Cuba, saying he felt no remorse and was willing to assume his "historical responsibility" for carrying out attacks.

But Luis Posada Carriles, in the 1998 interview with Miami-based TV anchor Maria Elvira Salazar, did not assume direct responsibility for masterminding the string of bombings in Havana in the previous summer.

Members of the jury saw a backlit, silhouetted Posada tell Salazar how he felt "no remorse whatsoever" and that the only option left to Cubans was to "to fight the violent regime with violence."

Posada, 83, spent decades crisscrossing Latin America to destabilize leftist regimes. He now faces 11 counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and immigration fraud for lying to immigration officials during his citizenship hearings. Officials say among other things, he lied in failing to acknowledge attacks on Cuban hotels and a top Havana tourist restaurant.

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