Washington, D.C. ? An Indonesian linked by U.S. authorities to a terror group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings told a military hearing he had no association with al-Qaida.

Riduan Isamuddin, who told the tribunal he preferred to be called Hambali, also said he had no knowledge of other terrorist plots he is accused of orchestrating as the alleged operations chief of the Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional terror group considered responsible for the Oct. 12, 2002, Bali bombings that killed 202 people.

He appeared before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, an administrative hearing, on April 4 at Guantanamo Bay as one of 14 “high value” detainees transferred there last September after being held at secret CIA prisons abroad. A U.S. government transcript of the unclassified portion of Isamuddin’s hearing was released Thursday by the Pentagon.