KUALA LUMPUR: The two Malaysian Guantanamo linked to the 2002 bombing in Bali will testify against the former leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah movement, Hambali.
This is part of the guilty plea to murder charges entered in a US military court at Guantanamo Bay yesterday.
Mohammed Farik Amin, 48, and Mohammed Nazir Lep, 47, were charged alongside Indonesian terror suspect Encep Nurjaman, also known as Hambali after being incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba since 2006.
The duo were initially charged in 2018 with nine offences linked to the 2002 bombings of Bali nightclubs that killed 202 people, and the 2003 bombing at the Jakarta Marriott hotel which claimed 11 lives.
However, based on a New York Times report, the Malaysian detainees reached agreements with prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay last October to charges of being accessories to the terrorists attacks in Bali, and hence were separated from Hambali's case.
Hambali now faces charges of murder, terrorism and conspiracy in the 2002 and 2003 incidents where the maximum punishment is life in prison.
Both Farik and Nazir's sentencing is set for next week.