Four special operators face the same charges related to the death, but one of the defendants has been identified as having held the Army staff sergeant in the chokehold that killed him.
The US service members who were charged were joined in the room by a Malian security guard and a British man who had befriended the Americans, said a Marine who is expected to plead guilty.
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