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New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
March 6, 2006
WASHINGTON - Two key U.S. allies in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden are locked in their own battle of bluster, with the rulers of Afghanistan and Pakistan each suggesting the other is slacking off in the war on terror.
The latest volleys of verbal bomb-throwing bracketed President Bush's four-day visit to the region that ended yesterday.
Before Bush arrived, Afghan President Hamid Karzai leaked complaints that the government of Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was failing to act on Afghan tips about the locations of top Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives hiding in Pakistan.
Musharraf yesterday called his neighbor's intel junk.
"They have given a list," he said on "Late Edition" on CNN. "Two-thirds of it is months old, and it is outdated, and there is nothing," he said.
He acknowledged he does not have control of his own border regions, but accused Karzai's government of trying to make Pakistan look bad with Bush in town.
"I feel there is a very, very deliberate attempt to malign Pakistan by some [Afghan intelligence] agents, and President Karzai is totally oblivious of what is happening in his own country," Musharraf said.
He also said relations between the two countries had deteriorated over the last two months.
Asked whether tension between the allies in the forefront of the hunt for Bin Laden is a problem, the State Department pointed to Secretary of State Rice's remarks Saturday in Pakistan.
"There are long histories of suspicion between Afghanistan and Pakistan. That's no secret to anyone," she said. "The good news is that they're getting better." Bin Laden is suspected of being in hiding along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/397104p-336597c.html
This would have been posted in the "Is the War on Terror Having
any Success" thread, however, that thread with over 100 replies
was lost when the threads on this board were pruned.
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<font size="5"><center>Pakistani, Afghan in Osama rift </font size></center>
New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
March 6, 2006
WASHINGTON - Two key U.S. allies in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden are locked in their own battle of bluster, with the rulers of Afghanistan and Pakistan each suggesting the other is slacking off in the war on terror.
The latest volleys of verbal bomb-throwing bracketed President Bush's four-day visit to the region that ended yesterday.
Before Bush arrived, Afghan President Hamid Karzai leaked complaints that the government of Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was failing to act on Afghan tips about the locations of top Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives hiding in Pakistan.
Musharraf yesterday called his neighbor's intel junk.
"They have given a list," he said on "Late Edition" on CNN. "Two-thirds of it is months old, and it is outdated, and there is nothing," he said.
He acknowledged he does not have control of his own border regions, but accused Karzai's government of trying to make Pakistan look bad with Bush in town.
"I feel there is a very, very deliberate attempt to malign Pakistan by some [Afghan intelligence] agents, and President Karzai is totally oblivious of what is happening in his own country," Musharraf said.
He also said relations between the two countries had deteriorated over the last two months.
Asked whether tension between the allies in the forefront of the hunt for Bin Laden is a problem, the State Department pointed to Secretary of State Rice's remarks Saturday in Pakistan.
"There are long histories of suspicion between Afghanistan and Pakistan. That's no secret to anyone," she said. "The good news is that they're getting better." Bin Laden is suspected of being in hiding along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/397104p-336597c.html