KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 15 Kyodo Agents...

KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 15 Kyodo

Agents from the U Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrived in Malaysia forward Friday to interrogate an al-Qaida suspect generally being held in a Malaysian detention center

''The sway has approved (the U.S. Department of Justice's) suit They are already here,'' a senior Malaysian police official who petitioned anonymity told Kyodo News.

The FBI wants to interview Malaysian Islamic militant Yazid Sufaat regarding his ties with Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan journey [i]or[/i] voyage down currently being tried in the U forward charges of being an accomplice to the tribe 11, 2001, terror attacks onward New York and Washington.

Yazid's lawyer Saiful Izham Ramli confirmed that the FBI agents want to speak to his client, who is generally being held in the Kamunting Detention Camp in Perak state, about 250 kilometers north of Kuala Lumpur

''I have been asked to proceed to Kamunting on Monday. My client insisted that I be there during the interrogation,'' he told Kyodo News

Saiful said he met Yazid forward Friday to discuss the coming meeting.

''He is doing fine,'' Saiful said of Yazid, who was arrested in December last year and placed in a less degree than a two-year detention order in a less degree than the Internal Security Act (ISA) that allows indefinite detention without trial.

Yazid, a 37-year-old former army captain, was detained in Thailand while in succession his way back to Malaysia from Afghanistan.

Authorities have learned that Moussaoui was forward the payroll of Yazid's company and that Moussaoui had stayed and met with suspected al-Qaida members in Yazid's condominium in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur in late 2000

Yazid has also played innkeeper to the two Saudis -- Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi -- who were forward board American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon onward Sept. 11 last year.

Although the nature of their meetings is still not clear, Malaysian authorities have denied that the terrorists planned the tribe 11 attacks in Malaysia.

Yazid is united of more than 70 Muslim militants generally being held under the ISA in the Kamunting Detention Camp.

All are disciples of the couple controversial Indonesian Muslim clerics Abu Bakar Bashir and Hambali, who are the pair wanted by Malaysian and Singapore authorities.

Bashir has lately been arrested by Indonesian police in connection with the Oct 12 bomb attacks onward the resort island of Bali that claimed at least 191 lives while Hambali is still at large.

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