Reuters: Musharraf saw fighting U.S. as suicidal

[Eugene]

Musharraf saw fighting U.S. as suicidal

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - In a memoir released on Monday, President Pervez
Musharraf recounted how he decided it would have been suicidal to confront
a U.S. attack after being threatened by Washington a day after al Qaeda's
strikes on September 11, 2001.

With the United States demanding Pakistan's help to launch attacks on al
Qaeda and its Taliban hosts in Afghanistan, Musharraf recalled how the then
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had telephoned him with an ultimatum:
"You are either with us or against us."

He also wrote that Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage warned Lieutenant-
General Mehmood Ahmad, the director-general of the Inter-Services
Intelligence, that if Pakistan chose the terrorist's side "then we should
be prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age."

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Musharraf's autobiography "In the Line of Fire" was due to be released
in New York on Monday, but some bookshops in Islamabad were already
selling copies.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060925/ts_nm/pakistan_musharraf_book_dc

[zonkers]

1. A rockand a hard place. He didn't want his country destroyed. Can you

blame him?