The Pentagon stated on Wednesday that it had repatriated two Malaysian males from its jail at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who admitted to committing battle crimes for an affiliate of Al Qaeda that carried out a lethal bombing in Bali, Indonesia, in 2002.
The uncommon switch, a day after the Pentagon launched one other prisoner to the custody of Kenya, diminished the detainee inhabitants to 27 males.
The freed prisoners, Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep, 47, and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin, 49, have been held by america since 2003. They had been returned to the custody of the Malaysian authorities, and supervision of its de-radicalization program, by way of a diplomatic association that was reached as a part of their responsible pleas in January.
Earlier than they left, the lads gave sworn testimony that prosecutors hope shall be helpful within the eventual trial of Encep Nurjaman, the Indonesian prisoner generally known as Hambali. Mr. Hambali is accused of being the mastermind of the Bali bombing and different terrorist assaults in 2002 and 2003 as a frontrunner of the Jemaah Islamiyah motion. The boys admitted to being equipment to the phobia assault, after the very fact, by serving to Mr. Hambali elude seize.
All three males had been held for years after their seize in Thailand within the C.I.A.’s secret jail community that used torture in its interrogations. They had been transferred to the navy jail in Cuba in 2006, however the navy didn’t formally cost them on the battle court docket till 2021.
Brian Bouffard, a lawyer who represented Mr. Bin Lep at Guantánamo, stated his shopper “plans to live a quiet life with his family. He’s been punished many times over for his long-ago involvement with the wrong people, and we hope one day that his torturers and their enablers might face accountability for the evil they have done in our name.”
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