Mr Posada Carriles says he was freedom fighter A US Court has acquitted an experienced Cuban anti-communist activist and former CIA agent, Luis Posada Carriles, on immigration charges.US federal prosecutors a jury had found accused him of lying to immigration officials, but not guilty it.
The verdict is likely anger Cuba and Venezuela, where Mr. Posada Carriles, 83, on the terrorist charges is desired.
Cuban exile groups have hailed the ruling as a "great defeat" for the Cuban Government.
After a trial lasting 13 weeks the jury in Texas took three hours, Mr Posada Carriles on 11 counts, including perjury and immigration fraud not guilty to find.
The ruling ends us prosecutors four years efforts to condemn him.
He had lying to immigration officials about how he got in the United States and been charged over his alleged involvement in bomb attacks in Havana in 1997, in which an Italian tourist was killed.
Central to the prosecution, an interview, was the the New York Times 1998 giving, in which he, that he was planning said the attacks, although he later withdrew the statement.
Cuba and Venezuela want also to extradite him for allegedly masterminding the bombing of a Cuban commercial aircraft in 1973, which were the lives of 73 people.
A lawyer represented Venezuela, José Pertierra said Caracas trying him extradited would renew now.
The United States has previously refused, Mr Posada Carriles to Cuba or Venezuela, say that he could face torture send.
Long struggleCarriles decades try Luis Posada to overthrow the Communist Government in Cuba.
In 1976 he was arrested Venezuela of the airline bombing, but escaped from prison in 1985.
He was then imprisoned in the year 2000 to the plotting of the murder of his arch-enemy, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in Panama, but was pardoned and published four years later.
Mr. Posada Carriles on participation in the airline and the alleged plot against Castro in Panama has always denied, however, is to fight for "Freedom" in Cuba.
Declassified U.S. documents show that he worked for the CIA from 1965 to 1976.
He is also worked for the secret services of Venezuela have, to the contra in Nicaragua, during his long campaign against left in Latin America have supported rebels Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina and Chile.
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