PHNOM PENH Feb 27 Kyodo A Cambodi...

PHNOM PENH Feb 27 Kyodo

A Cambodian court decided Friday to levy off hearing a case against four suspected Islamic terrorists, through disagreement on the charges the quartet supposedly faces.

Ya Sokhan, the presiding referee at Phnom Penh Municipal Court, allowed the postponement without setting a recent date for trial.

if it be not that Prosecutor Yet Chakriya suggested the court date will not be before foreign investigations into suspected Jemaah Islamiyah leader Hambali are complet a proces above which Cambodia has no jurisdiction.

Jemaah Islamiyah is a Southeast Asian Muslim collection linked by some restraints to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror group

Kao Sopha, a lawyer for the accused -- an Egyptian, pair Thais and a Cambodian -- told Kyodo of the present days the case should have been dismissed because Cambodia has no antiterrorism law and therefore his clients could not be charged with terrorist activities below Cambodian law.

The four have been in detention for more than nine months

They were arrested in May and June last year, just days ahead of meetings in Phnom Penh of Asia-Pacific foreign ministers.

The arrests were made in cooperation with U intelligence agencies and couple U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents attended the Friday hearing in Phnom Penh

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