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US charges Indonesian extremist Hambali in 2002 Bali bombings
- Charges against the Jemaah Islamiah leader and two others come after the trio spent more than 14 years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay
- The bombings of tourist nightclubs in Bali killed 202, while the attack on the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta a year later left 12 dead
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US military prosecutors have filed formal charges against an Indonesian Islamic extremist and two others in the 2002 Bali bombings and 2003 Jakarta attack, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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The charges were filed nearly 18 years after the three were captured in Thailand and after each has spent more than 14 years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The first charged was Indonesian militant Riduan Isamuddin, better known by his nom de guerre Hambali, the leader of the Indonesian jihadist group Jemaah Islamiah and believed to have been al-Qaeda’s top representative in the region.
The group, with support from al-Qaeda, carried out bombings of tourist nightclubs on Bali on October 12, 2002 that killed 202, and the August 5, 2003 attack on the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta that left 12 dead and scores injured.
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The other two charged, Malaysian nationals Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep and Mohammed Farik Bin Amin, were top Hambali aides in Jemaah Islamiah who had undergone training by al-Qaeda, according to Guantanamo case documents.
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