U.s. Threatened To Bomb Pakistan After 9/11: Musharraf

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Quote:U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/11: Musharraf
Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:21pm ET135
EW YORK (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after the September 11 attacks the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's war campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Musharraf, in an interview with CBS news magazine show "60 Minutes" that will air Sunday, said the threat came from Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage and was given to Musharraf's intelligence director.

"The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,'" Musharraf said.

"I think it was a very rude remark."

The Pakistani leader, whose remarks were distributed to the media by CBS, said he reacted to the threat in a responsible way.

"One has to think and take actions in the interest of the nation, and that's what I did," Musharraf said about the cooperation extended by Pakistan.

Musharraf said some demands made by the United States were "ludicrous," including one insisting he suppress domestic expression of support for terrorism against the United States.

"If somebody's expressing views, we cannot curb the expression of views," Musharraf said.

Reuters

[harflimon]

Interesting. Even more so that CBS is the one he is telling this too. It seems a little fake to me, as if the elites are trying to turn the world's anger towards America so that once we do fall, which I think will be soon, they will support the new Empire, whoever that may be.

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thanks for posting that - I'd often wondered why Pakistan suddenly seemed so keen to help... makes perfect sense now.