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Police never asked me about Sept. 11 hijackers, wife of Malaysian militant suspect says JASBANT SINGH; Associated Press Writer
Associated Press Worldstream
June 14, 2002 Friday 5:14 AM Eastern Time
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
Released after 58 days in jail without charge, the wife of a Malaysian militant suspect accused of hosting al-Qaida terrorists said Friday her interrogators never asked her about two Sept. 11 hijackers who allegedly stayed at the couple's apartment.
Sejahratul Dursina and her husband Yazid Sufaat own an apartment near Kuala Lumpur which authorities say was used for a meeting of senior al-Qaida agents in January 2000. Among those present were two Sept. 11 hijackers.
U.S. authorities say Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, who were aboard the flight that hit the Pentagon, and senior al-Qaida member Tawfiq Attash Khallad attended a January 2000 meeting at the apartment. Officials say Moussaoui also stayed in the Malaysian couple's apartment later in 2000.
The meeting is a key event in the debate over what warnings U.S. security agencies had about the attacks. Security agents observed the meeting, and U.S. officials say FBI and CIA agents were informed, but the hijackers were able to enter the United States soon afterward. Sejahratul was also the co-owner of a computer company, Infocus Tech., which U.S. authorities say provided terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui with a letter of employment that may have helped him enter the United States.
U.S. government prosecutors believe Moussaoui may have been training as a hijacker. He is charged in the United States with conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks and faces the death penalty.
Sejahratul was arrested April 17 with 13 other people and held in solitary confinement by police. She was not allowed to consult lawyers, although she saw Yazid three times and was visited regularly by her four children.
Sejahratul's interrogators "did not ask anything about any Sept. 11 hijackers or Zacarias or Infotech," she told The Associated Press by telephone about 12 hours after her release.
In an interview later, Sejahratul said that during hours-long questioning sessions held most days of her confinement, authorities showed her numerous photographs of different "Arab-looking" men and asked if she knew them.
Moussaoui was in one of the photographs.
"I told them I recognized Zacarias from newspaper pictures but I have never met him or knew any of dealings between him and my husband," she said. "I didn't know anything about the other pictures."
Most questions were about Yazid and the ethnic Malay Muslim couple's religious activities, she said.
Yazid, 38, a former Malaysian army captain and U.S.-educated microbiologist, has been jailed without trial since December on accusations he let al-Qaida use the apartment.
U.S. authorities say Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, who were aboard the flight that hit the Pentagon, and senior al-Qaida member Tawfiq Attash Khallad attended a January 2000 meeting at the apartment.
Officials say Moussaoui also stayed in the Malaysian couple's apartment later in 2000.
Sejahratul was released on the conditions that she not leave her house after dark or the Kuala Lumpur suburb where she lives without police permission, and that she report to police twice a month.
Of the other 13 people arrested in April, Home Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ordered 11 to be sent to a prison camp for two years. Two were released unconditionally, without explanation.
They are among 62 people arrested in Malaysia since April last year under a security law that allows indefinite detention without trial of people accused of being members of an al-Qaida-linked Islamic militant group in Southeast Asia.
Saiful Izham Ramli, Sejahratul's lawyer, said detention documents handed to her do not mention al-Qaida, Moussaoui or the Sept. 11 attacks.
But he said the documents accused her of being a member of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamic extremist group that authorities say was behind a foiled plot to bomb pro-Western targets in Singapore.
Saiful said the documents allege she supported a holy war to set up an Islamic state comprising Malaysia, Indonesia and the southern Philippines and solicited funds to help Muslims fight Christians in Indonesia's Maluku province, also known as the Moluccan Islands.
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 14, 2002, Friday 05:03 Central European Time Kuala Lumpur Sejahratul Dursina, who was arrested on April 17, was the only woman held so far in connection with the alleged extremist Malaysian Mujahiddin Group (KMM). She was released conditionally Thursday in a move deemed surprising as no other KMM detainees had been freed since the government began a crackdown on the group last year. Her release came less than 24 hours before a court was due to decide on her application for release from ISA detention.
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Excluding Sejahratul, Malaysian authorities are holding 61 people for KMM links and are seeking another 100. |
I remember this guy. I don't think we ever determined what type of military background he had - combat arms or combat support or combat service support.
her interrogators never asked her about two Sept. 11 hijackers who allegedly stayed at the couple's apartment.
sounds like our own fibbers interrogated the mrs.
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