"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
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Friday, September 22, 2006

October Surprise ?

Does this mean that US is about to take action, grab "senior" al Qaeda leader?

Pakistan Tells of U.S. Threat After 9/11, CBS Reports

REUTERS
Published: September 22, 2006

"President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said yesterday that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with the American campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Pervez Musharraf said the White House had said it would bomb Pakistan if it did not cooperate.

General Musharraf, in an interview with “60 Minutes” that will be broadcast Sunday on CBS, said the threat came from Richard L. Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, and was made to General Musharraf’s intelligence director."


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"With the Taliban still fighting in Afghanistan and statements by the Afghan government that Pakistan must do more to crack down on militants in its rugged border area, the issue is again a delicate one between Islamabad and Washington.

General Musharraf reacted with displeasure to comments by Mr. Bush on Wednesday that if he had firm intelligence that Mr. bin Laden was in Pakistan, he would issue the order to go into that country.

“We wouldn’t like to allow that," General Musharraf said at a news conference. “We’d like to do that ourselves.”

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