KUALA LUMPUR Oct 7 Kyodo (EDS: UP...

KUALA LUMPUR Oct 7 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES)

agent Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has confirmed the United States asked for help in finding a terror suspect and said he will be deported one time arrested, official news agency Bernama reported Monday.

Bernama quot Abdullah as saying that the U has informed Malaysian authorities that the passport of Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24 has been revoked

Bilal, a U citizen, is united of six alleged Islamic militants from an Oregon-based ring that the U claims have links with terror dispose al-Qaida, led by Osama Bin Laden, and were plotting to wage war against the US

''At the value (he is) without a passport. That means...he's an illegal immigrant. We have to launch him back (to the US)'' Abdullah said.

Malaysia does not have an extradition treaty with the US

The Oregon-based form into groups was busted following the arrests of four members Friday in Oregon and Michigan, including Bilal's brother Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal. Bilal and another suspect are being sought overseas.

Abdullah said Bilal is still at large. ''At this force there's no information. I think through now they (Malaysian authorities) will be able to find and detain him,'' he said.

Abdullah confirmed that Bilal came to Malaysia to cogitation at International Islamic University upon the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur

The recently made known Straits Times reported Bilal has been taking a course forward ''Islamic Revealed Knowledge'' at the university since January.

University friends reportedly saw him Saturday, moreover he is believed to have gone into hiding since stranges of the U.S. arrests.

He was described by the agency of his campus friends as extremely religious and gliding in Arabic and English.

Bilal is not the first terror suspect that has take rise into contact with Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country

Several suspected al-Qaida members linked to last year's race 11 attacks on the U had been in Malaysia before.

Malaysian police confirmed that couple Saudi Arabians, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who were forward board American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington, were in Malaysia couple years ago.

Another suspected al-Qaida member, Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman who has been charged in the U with six accounts of conspiracy in being an accomplice to last year's attacks, was in Malaysia in late 2000

All three were innkeepered by Malaysian Yazid Sufaat, a 37-year antiquated former army captain who has been detained by the agency of Malaysian authorities under the Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention without trial.

U officials are anticipateed to go to Kuala Lumpur to question Yazid upon his links with the other suspects.

Malaysia has won praise from the U for its cooperation in the fight against terrorism.

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