The F.B.I. questioned a 38 year old Malaysian man with a U.S. degree in biochemistry yesterday inside a Malaysian detention camp.

The man is Yazid Sufaat, a Malaysian businessman and former army captain. The camp is in northern Malaysia, which is holding over 65 suspected Muslim militants detained by authorities. Sufaat is suspected of providing employment documents to Zacarias Moussaoui so he could get a U.S. Visa and providing lodging in Kuala Lumpur to two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers.

"Yazid was first spotted by police in January 2000 meeting al-Midhar and al-Hazmi, and is said to have met with Moussaoui in September and October that year. The information was shared with U.S. security agencies at that time. He was finally picked up in December last year while returning to Malaysia via Thailand from Afghanistan. He is being held at Kamunting detention camp under the Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial. He denies any wrongdoing."

Here's what we're curious about. Sufaat had a lawer at the camp while the FBI questioned him who was either present during the questioning or briefed about it after. Why aren't Hamdi and Padilla and Binalshibh accorded the same right to counsel?

``They're done, that's the end of it,'' Yazid's lawyer told reporters as he drove out of the camp after the FBI had completed questioning his client. ``Basically, they wanted to know how he knew Moussaoui,'' the lawyer Saiful Izham Ramli said, referring to a man set for trial in the United States for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks."

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