PETALING JAYA: Two Malaysians have pleaded guilty to being accessories in the 2002 Bali bombing, after being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba since 2006.
According to a report by the New York Times on Wednesday (Jan 17), Mohammed Farik Amin, 48 and Mohammed Nazir Lep, 47 were charged in 2021, 18 years after they were held in Thailand.
The sentencing is expected to take place next week.
Both of them were held for years in the secretive overseas network of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
In 2006, they were transferred to Guantanamo Bay to face trial in a special security court which was set up by former United States president George W. Bush after the Sept 11, 2001 attack.
Also charged were Encep Nurjaman who was also known as Hambali from Indonesia.
However, last October, the New York Times reported that Mohammed Farik and Mohammed Nazir struck a deal with the district attorney in Guantanamo Bay for being an 'accessory' to the terrorist attack in Bali, and the case was heard separately from Hambali's case.
Hambali is currently facing a murder charge, terrorism and conspiracy in the 2002 and 2003 incidents and if found guilty could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
In their plea statement, both Malaysians agreed to testify against Hambali, the former leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah movement, according to the report.
In 2018, both were charged with nine counts related to the bombing in the Bali nightclub which killed 202 people and the bombing of a hotel in 2003 where 11 were killed.
