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To: SirRealist who wrote (5141)	10/15/2001 12:32:25 AM
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Pakistan says US should "take out" Taliban leader WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Pakistan's president will advise the United States to first "take out" Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar before turning its attentions to militant Osama bin Laden, according to an interview published on Monday. "Get Mullah Omar and Osama won't be able to operate. He'll be on the run," General Pervez Musharraf was quoted as telling USA Today and CBS television in a joint interview ahead of a visit to Islamabad by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. "You must take out the center of gravity," Musharraf said of Afghanistan's spiritual leader. "That's what I would do if I were running this campaign." Musharraf, whose country is the only nation that still has diplomatic links with the Taliban, has been walking a delicate line between support for the U.S.-led military campaign against terrorism and opposition at home to attacks on a fellow Muslim neighbor. Radical Islamic groups have called a general strike for Monday to protest both Powell's visit and the U.S. air strikes being mounted against Afghanistan for sheltering bin Laden, chief suspect in the Sept 11. suicide plane attacks in New York and Washington. Musharraf said in the interview he believed the U.S. military campaign would be short-lived if the Taliban top leaders were removed. He also doubted the Taliban would be able to muster enough force to defeat U.S. troops when a ground assault in Afghanistan is eventually launched. "It could be over in one day if you take out Mullah Omar and his leadership. Once you've done that the campaign is over," the general was quoted as saying. Musharraf said Pakistan did not know bin Laden's location but that Islamabad's intelligence services and officials were working with local Pashtun chiefs to try to find him. The United States has said the military campaign could be a long one. *********** ....does he really think this will be over in a day ? Musharraf has been smoking the hookha again . Get some sleep tonight Kev >>>>>