09-22-2006, 12:54 AM
<b>US threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to stone age' after 9/11: Musharraf </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW YORK (AFP) - The United States threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it cooperated in the US-led war on terror, President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview.
Musharraf, whose support for the US-led invasion of    Afghanistan was instrumental in the fall of the hardline Taliban regime after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said the threat came from former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage.
"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 with the 60 minutes investigative news programme to be broadcast Sunday.
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Nothing new, he is trying to sell his book.
Today Bush gave Pakistan fresh reminder. <!--emo&
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Musharraf, whose support for the US-led invasion of    Afghanistan was instrumental in the fall of the hardline Taliban regime after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said the threat came from former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage.
"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 with the 60 minutes investigative news programme to be broadcast Sunday.
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Nothing new, he is trying to sell his book.
Today Bush gave Pakistan fresh reminder. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->