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| Musharraf: Pakistan Isn't Hunting Osama, Cause I'm Busy Right Now |
| 2008-01-23 |
| PARIS -- Pervez Musharraf says he still gets the question a lot: When will Osama bin Laden and his top deputy be caught? The Pakistani president insists it's more important for his 100,000 troops on the Afghan border to root out the Taliban than search for al-Qaida leaders. That bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are still at large "doesn't mean much," the former general said Tuesday on the second day of a swing through Europe. He suggested they are far less a threat to his regime than Taliban-linked militants entrenched in Pakistan's west. Bin Laden and al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding somewhere in the lawless tribal areas along Afghanistan's frontier with Pakistan. "The 100,000 troops that we are using ... are not going around trying to locate Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, frankly," Musharraf told a conference at the French Institute for International Relations. "They are operating against terrorists, and in the process, if we get them, we will deal with them certainly." Right.... |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #3 i think it was Al Queda who has tried several times too kill Musharraf and seems too be a big time consumer of Al zwahiri. Seems like Musharraf better remember history nefore it bites him in the ass |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-01-23 18:40 |
| #2 Ah, fond memories of my betel nut days. |
| Posted by: danking70 2008-01-23 12:46 |
| #1 "We are not a banana republic." What then, a betel nut republic? |
| Posted by: GK 2008-01-23 11:23 |