4-08-09, 10:25 am

HAVANA, Cuba, April 8 (acn) A new hearing for the self-confessed international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was set for August 10th, 2009, by Judge Kathleen Cardone during a hearing this week in El Paso, Texas.

According to Juventud Rebelde news daily, on this occasion Posada Carriles will be tried again on immigration fraud charges.

During the hearing this week in El Paso, the prosecution demanded a $250,000 bail bond plus an additional $100,000, guaranteed by him, his wife, son and daughter.

According to a document signed by district attorney John W. Van Lonkhuyzen, Posada Carriles will also be unable to have any contacts with Santiago Álvarez, Osvaldo Mitat, Rubén López-Castro, José Pujol, Ernesto Abreu or any other witness in the case.

The Federal Prosecution also warned that “the government intends to bring new charges against the defendant, based on evidence that the government has obtained after the Court rejected the case in the past.”

Jose Pertierra, the attorney who represents Venezuela in a process for extradition against the international terrorist, said that “Venezuela insists that Posada Carriles be extradited to Caracas to be tried for the mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed all 73 people onboard.”

He explained that the new motion presented by the prosecution in El Paso does not demand that Posada Carriles be put in jail and that it is only another delaying maneuver.

“They could put him in jail immediately only by pronouncing him a terrorist,” he stressed.

“There is a new President, a new Attorney General and a new Secretary of State in Washington, but these motions of the prosecution in Posada’s case are more of the same,” Pertierra concluded.