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Malaysian Suspect Won't Be Extradited

Tuesday February 5, 2002 1:20 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A former Malaysian army captain accused of playing host to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers will not be extradited to the United States, the government said Monday.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Yazid Sufaat, arrested after returning to Malaysia from Afghanistan, would be dealt with under Malaysian law.

``As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offense and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited,'' Abdullah was quoted as saying Monday by the national news agency, Bernama.

Yazid, 37, was the first of 23 arrests in the past two months in a crackdown on what officials say is a local Islamic group with ties to al-Qaida and a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy and other Western targets in neighboring Singapore.

Police have not charged him with any crime but are holding Yazid under a security law which allows for indefinite detention without trial. Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Yazid is cooperating with police and has provided details of meetings he held with the hijackers and Zacarias Moussaoui.

The New York Times, citing unidentified officials, reported last week that Washington was negotiating for Yazid's extradition to face charges in the United States.

Malaysian officials have said Yazid played host to Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaz al-Hazmi at his weekend home outside of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, in January, 2000. Al-Midhar and al-Hazmi were on the American Airlines plane that was flown into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

Moussaoui, charged in the United States with conspiring to kill thousands of people in the attacks, also was Yazid's guest during a visit to Malaysia in September 2000. Officials say Yazid signed a letter naming Moussaoui as the U.S. and European representative of a Malaysian computer software company where Yazid's wife served as director.

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller acknowledged last week for the first time that some of the planning for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States occurred in Malaysia.

``We believe there was planning in Germany and Malaysia and perhaps in other countries,'' Mueller said. He did not elaborate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/ asia-pacific/newsid_1800000/1800990.stm

Monday, 4 February, 2002, 18:54 GMT

Malaysia 'not to extradite terror suspect'

Mr Yazid had alleged links with Pentagon attackers A former Malaysian army captain allegedly implicated in the 11 September attacks will not be extradited to the United States, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says.

Mr Abdullah said that Yazid Sufaat - one of 23 people arrested in Malaysia since December for alleged membership of a militant group linked with al-Qaeda - would be dealt with under Malaysian law.

The statement followed media reports that the United States had requested Malaysia to hand over of Mr Yazid.

He is being held under Malaysia's Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial.

Malaysian officials allege that Mr Yazid had direct contact with two of the 11 September hijackers.

He is also suspected of involvement in a foiled plot to blow up American targets in Singapore, including the US embassy.

"As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offence and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited," Mr Abdullah was quoted as saying on Monday by the national news agency, Bernama.

'Visits from hijackers'

Mr Yazid, 37, was arrested on 9 December as he returned to Malaysia from Afghanistan.

Officials said he has been giving police details of his meetings with the hijackers and with Zacarias Moussaoui, who is charged in the United States with conspiring to kill thousands of people in the attacks.

Two hijackers aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon - Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaz al-Hazmi - visited Malaysia in January 2000 and stayed at Mr Yazid's flat outside Kuala Lumpur, officials said.

During their stay, al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi reportedly met a third al-Qaeda member later identified as a suspect in the USS Cole bombing in October 2000.

Mr Moussaoui also visited Mr Yazid in September 2000, officials said.

Mr Moussaoui is alleged to have intended to be the 20th hijacker in the attacks on the United States.

He appeared in court in the United States last month charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, to hijack and destroy planes, to use weapons of mass destruction and to murder.