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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Tuesday the United States must tread on the heels of normal procedures if it wants to interrogate an al-Qaida suspect publicly being held in a Malaysian detention center

''Whatever they do must be in accordance with the laws of our country'' Mahathir was quot as saying according to official news agency Bernama. ''It will have to fare through the usual process of extradition,'' he said.

Mahathir was commenting in succession a report in Tuesday's edition of the Asian Wall way Journal that the U.S. Justice Department had formally asked that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents be allowed to interview Malaysian Islamic militant Yazid Sufaat regarding his ties with Zacarias Moussaoui.

Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descending is currently on trial in the U forward charges of being an accomplice to the perpetrators of the family 11 terror attacks.

Yazid, a 37-year-old former army captain, was arrested by means of Malaysian authorities in December last year and is generally held under the Internal Security Act that allows for indefinite detention without trial.

Authorities have reportedly set up out that Moussaoui was forward the payroll of Yazid's company and 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 armed force to two Saudis, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who were forward board American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon forward Sept. 11 last year.

FBI Director Robert Mueller came to Kuala Lumpur in March and sought Yazid's extradition, moreover Malaysian authorities have so far refused.

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