| A Cambodian lawyer says he has asked a court to release three suspected Jemaah Islamiah members because they had been held longer than the six month pre-trial detention period allowed by law. The three suspects, an Egyptian and two Thais, were arrested in May ahead of a mid-June visit by US Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Cambodia’s 1993 penal code forbids detention of a suspect for more than six months without trial. Cambodian authorities say the three men were members of a JI cell that had been operating out of an Islamic school near Phnom Penh which allegedly was used as a front to channel al-Qaeda money into the country from Saudi Arabia. |