First witness retakes stand in Posada trial

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The first witness has resumed testimony in the trial of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles.

The 82-year-old ex-CIA operative faces 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and naturalization fraud.

The Cuban is accused of lying in 2005 immigration proceedings about his role in bombings at Havana hotels in 1997.

Gina Garrett Jackson, an attorney with the Department of Homeland Security in Miami, began testifying Wednesday and is taking the stand again Thursday.

She has spoken about Posada’s application for American citizenship in Florida, which led to immigration hearings in El Paso. He is accused of lying at that hearing.

Cuba and Venezuela accuse Posada of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings.