The government today said it has no information on the allegation that a terrorist suspect, who was charged on Tuesday in connection with the Sept 11 attacks, was an employee of a Malaysian company.

"It is his (the company's owner) personal problem, not ours," Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told a press conference after breaking fast at the Bukit Aman federal police headquarters with some 800 officers.

However, the minister said the government will co-operate with the US in its investigation "if they ask us to and give us enough information on that (allegation)".

Badawi, who is also home minister, stressed that the government cannot simply take any action against any individual or company based on media reports.

Yesterday, malaysiakini reported that Infocus Tech (M) Sdn Bhd denied any links to Zacarias Moussaoui, a French Moroccan said to be the 20th hijacker who did not board his plane in time as he was arrested three weeks before the Sept 11 attacks.

He was charged in a federal court in Virginia state with several offences, and if convicted could face the death penalty.

The US government believed that Moussaoui was trained at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.

Full support to US

In the 30-page indictment of Moussaoui, the 33-year-old suspect was said to have possessed documents showing that he was a representative of Infocus Tech, a distributor of digital products.

"On or about Sept 29, 2000, Moussaoui contacted Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, using an e-mail account he set up with an Internet service provider in Malaysia.

"In or about October 2000, Moussaoui received letters from Infocus Tech, a Malaysian company, stating that he was appointed Infocus Tech's marketing consultant in the US, the United Kingdom, and Europe, and that he would receive, among other things, an allowance of US$2,500 per month," read the indictment.

Although Malaysia has openly condemned terrorism since the Sept 11 attacks and has repeatedly stressed that it will not harbour any terrorists, it also denounced the US' retaliatory actions on Afghanistan.

In early October, a Microsoft branch office in Nevada state reportedly received a mail re-routed from Malaysia which was later confirmed to have contained anthrax.

Following that, the Malaysian government and police had pledged full support to the US in investigations.

One of the suspected Sept 11 hijackers, Khalid Al-Midhar, was also reported to have been seen on a surveillance tape meeting a man in Kuala Lumpur, whom US officials suspect was involved in last year's attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen.