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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4026)	9/19/2001 7:39:08 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Wearing a military uniform, Musharraf made a mostly-Urdu address to the nation peppered with religious annotations to tell his Pakistanis why he was supporting the US decision. His bizarre logic, expressed transparently and without inhibition, in sum meant an opportunistic move to sup with the lesser devil and take on one crisis at a time. US officials and analysts were startled and bemused by his reasoning but maintained that Musharraf was speaking to his domestic constituency and trying to contain the opposition to his offer of "unstinted cooperation" to the US. "I don't think we care what he says as long he provides intelligence and logistical support," timesofindia.com