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Christine Funk, right, lawyer for Malaysian defendant Mohammed Farik bin Amin, speaks with reporters after the second day of an arraignment hearing for her client Malaysian defendant Mohammed Nazir bin Lep

THE trials of three men held without charge in Guantanamo Bay for 18 years are so flawed they should be scrapped or begun anew, defence lawyers say.

Indonesian militant leader Encep Nurjaman and two Malaysians were arraigned yesterday before a military commission on charges of murder, terrorism and conspiracy related to nightclub bombings in Bali in 2002.

Mr Nurjaman, known by his nom de guerre Hambali, was a leader of a group called Jemaah Islamiyah, a south-east Asian group linked to al-Qaida. Bombings they are accused of carrying out in Bali and Jakarta killed 213 people.

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