The hearing this morning for the defence of alleged militant Islamist Yazid Sufaat, now held under the Internal Security Act for two years, has been postponed to early next month.

The postponement was announced by the three-member advisory presided by Ahmad Zaki Yasin after it heard Yazid's denial with regard to a statement which police claimed to have recorded during interrogation.

Yazid, 37, claimed that he had no knowledge about certain remarks in the statement.

The panel subsequently decided to adjourn the session and summon two police officers who recorded the statement to the next hearing on April 4. It also asked for the original copy of Yazid's statement in his own handwriting at the next session.

Earlier, the one-hour hearing began with police personnel submitting documents outlining Yazid's involvement in militant activities to the panel.

The documents were not disclosed to the detainee, but a statement, said to have been typed based on Yazid's written statement, was read out by police.

The detainee's lawyer Saiful Izham Ramli, who was representing Yazid at the hearing today, said he requested for a copy of the rest of the documents but was rejected.

"The panel said it was a security matter and should remain confidential," Saiful said when contacted.

The lawyer also said the panel refused to put the rejection of the request on record and they gave no reason for this decision.

Saiful said his client had prepared the reply in writing to the charges made by the police in his detention order dated Jan 30.

'Al-Qaeda network operative'

Yazid was among the 23 people rounded up by police in recent months. The group was said to comprise members of a secret cell under the so-called Malaysian Mujahidin Group (KMM) which was allegedly trying to topple the government through militant means and set up an Islamic state.

Yazid, a pathologist, was later singled out as an "al-Qaeda terrorist network operative by the foreign media who repeatedly quoted "Malaysian officials" on numerous allegations levelled against him.

Among others, Yazid was said to have signed a letter appointing a terrorist suspect as the marketing representative in the United States and Europe for his wife's company here.

The suspect, French Moroccan Zacarias Moussaoui, was charged in the US last December for conspiring with the al-Qaeda in the Sept 11 attacks.

Yazid was also said to have hosted two terrorists who were involved in the attacks. The duo, together with 17 others, had hijacked four jetliners and ploughed three of them into New York's World Trade Center and Washington's Pentagon.

Yazid's wife, Sejahratul Dursina, had denied repeatedly that her husband was involved in the activities.

A copy of Yazid's detention order obtained by malaysiakini last month alleged that Yazid was a member of Jemaah Islamiah which aims to "instill the jihad and martyrdom spirit" in the region through religious classes conducted by three unnamed clerics from Indonesia.

Yazid was also said to have contributed money to Jemaah Islamiah to fund sectarian violence in the Ambon Islands of Indonesia, and against the Philippine army in Mindanao.

The document also alleged that Yazid had used his condominium in a Selangor suburb to host al-Qaeda members, and purchased four tonnes of ammonium nitrate to be made into bombs in the jihad against Christians in Ambon.