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 Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:40 am Pakistan leader says U.S. made threats |
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| Quote: | President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says the United States threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age after the 9/11 attacks if he did not help America's war on terror.
The threat was delivered by Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, to Musharraf's intelligence director, the Pakistani leader told CBS' "60 Minutes."
"The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,'" Musharraf said in the interview to be shown Sunday on the CBS television network.
It was insulting, Musharraf said. "I think it was a very rude remark," he told reporter Steve Kroft.
But, Musharraf said he reacted responsibly. "One has to think and take actions in the interests of the nation and that is what I did," he said.
The White House and State Department declined to comment on the conversation. |
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| Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:44 am |
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I doubt this is true, but I wouldn't put it past Armitage. As the Valarie Plame case shows, he's a jerk.
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| Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:15 pm |
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Bush has expressed surprise over this.
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| Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:19 pm |
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He has, and I'm sure he is surprised. I really don't think this is what was really said anyways.
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