Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin agreed to present proof in opposition to alleged mastermind Hambali.
Malaysians Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin have pleaded responsible to conspiring within the 2002 Bali bombings that killed greater than 200 folks.
The 2 males appeared in entrance of a army courtroom on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday in proceedings broadcast through video hyperlink to reporters in the USA.
Bin Lep, 47, and Bin Amin, 48, pleaded responsible to 5 of the 9 fees in opposition to them, in keeping with Benar Information, marking the primary time they’d entered a plea since they had been delivered to Guantanamo some 17 years in the past.
Costs associated to the 2003 assault on the Marriott Resort in Jakarta that killed 11 folks had been dropped as a part of a plea deal, in keeping with The New York Occasions, and the lads agreed to present proof in opposition to alleged Indonesian mastermind Encep Nurjaman, also called Hambali.
Bin Lep and Bin Amin had been accused of being Hambali’s accomplices and charged alongside him, however their circumstances had been separated final yr.
The Malaysians shall be sentenced subsequent week, after which they’re anticipated to be returned dwelling.
Hambali, who was as soon as described by former US President George W Bush as “one of many world’s most deadly terrorists”, is nonetheless to go on trial.
Via his legal professionals, Hambali has alleged that he was brutally tortured following his arrest in Thailand in 2003, after which he says he was transferred to a secret detention camp run by the Central Intelligence Company (CIA) and tortured as a part of the company’s rendition, detention and interrogation (RDI) programme, which is typically known as the “torture programme”.
The assaults on the Bali golf equipment in October 2002 had been the worst in Indonesian historical past and led to a crackdown on hardline teams similar to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and a strengthening of Jakarta’s counterterrorism operations.
Three of the principle perpetrators of the bombings had been sentenced to demise and executed in 2008, whereas a fourth, Ali Imron, was jailed for all times after he apologised and expressed regret for what he had achieved.
In 2022, Indonesia jailed Zulkarnaen, a senior member of JI who had been on the run for 20 years, to fifteen years in jail over the assaults.
