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Sydney Morning Herald
16-06-2025
- Sydney Morning Herald
Accused Bali bomber Hambali to face military trial after 22 years in detention
Minneapolis: Alleged Bali bombing mastermind Encep Nurjaman, better known as Hambali and once described as 'the Osama bin Laden of South-East Asia', will face trial in September for the first time since he was captured in 2003 and sent to the US's notorious Guantanamo Bay. The US Department of Defence announced pre-trial proceedings would take place against Nurjaman over two weeks. They will be conducted at the Expeditionary Legal Complex at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, by a military commission – a quasi-legal process established by then president George W. Bush for non-citizen terrorism suspects detained at Guantanamo. Nurjaman was captured in Thailand in 2003 along with two other terrorism suspects. The trio spent three years in the CIA's network of secret prisons known as 'black sites', commonly used for torture or 'enhanced interrogation', before being taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. The two other men, Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin, were repatriated to Malaysia late last year after pleading guilty before the military commission to multiple offences and providing testimony against Nurjaman in a pre-trial agreement. Loading Nurjaman has been charged in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, and the 2003 bombing at the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta, which left 12 people dead. According to the US Department of Defence, those charges include 'conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, terrorism, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, destruction of property, and accessory after the fact, all in violation of the law of war'. Nurjaman is alleged to be the former military commander of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which last year announced it was disbanding.
The Age
16-06-2025
- The Age
Accused Bali bomber Hambali to face military trial after 22 years in detention
Minneapolis: Alleged Bali bombing mastermind Encep Nurjaman, better known as Hambali and once described as 'the Osama bin Laden of South-East Asia', will face trial in September for the first time since he was captured in 2003 and sent to the US's notorious Guantanamo Bay. The US Department of Defence announced pre-trial proceedings would take place against Nurjaman over two weeks. They will be conducted at the Expeditionary Legal Complex at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, by a military commission – a quasi-legal process established by then president George W. Bush for non-citizen terrorism suspects detained at Guantanamo. Nurjaman was captured in Thailand in 2003 along with two other terrorism suspects. The trio spent three years in the CIA's network of secret prisons known as 'black sites', commonly used for torture or 'enhanced interrogation', before being taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. The two other men, Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin, were repatriated to Malaysia late last year after pleading guilty before the military commission to multiple offences and providing testimony against Nurjaman in a pre-trial agreement. Loading Nurjaman has been charged in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, and the 2003 bombing at the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta, which left 12 people dead. According to the US Department of Defence, those charges include 'conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, terrorism, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, destruction of property, and accessory after the fact, all in violation of the law of war'. Nurjaman is alleged to be the former military commander of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which last year announced it was disbanding.
