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After just 3 hours of deliberation...following 13 weeks of testimony...an El Paso Texas jury acquitted former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, 83, of all 11 perjury charges...including alleged 1997 Cuba bombings and in 2005...illegally entering the USA.
Venezuela has responded a statement with expressing great indignation over the jury's decision dismissing him for 6 October 1976 "assassination of 73 people aboard Flight CU-455."
It also reiterated a request for his extradition to Caracas.
UPDATE: Cuba Parliament head Ricardo Alarcon told AP the Texas federal judge prevented jurors from seeing evidence that would have convinced them of his guilt.
"The US government is as much a liar as he is because it converted a killer who has been sought for decades into a simple old liar," he said.
Posada is regarded as "enemigo numero uno" for several alleged La Habana bombings...and the death of one Italian tourist. He also allegedly plotted the assassination of Fidel Castro
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13026870
