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To: greenspirit who wrote (43322)	9/16/2002 3:38:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Musharraf says US investigators are better-Al Qaeda men to be extradited.. * President says standoff with India still on * Collaboration with US total * Attack on Iraq could cause disturbance in Pakistan By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday that there was ‘total cooperation and collaboration’ between the US and Pakistan in the hunt for Al Qaeda. President Musharraf, who recorded the interview before his departure for Pakistan on Friday, spoke about the capture of eight men in Karachi in an operation in which two men died and a number of Pakistani police and security officials were injured. He said the men captured would be interrogated by Pakistani agencies to establish if they were ‘black or white’, but added that after the shootout, it was clear they were Al Qaeda. He also conceded that US intelligence agencies had better expertise. He also conceded that US intelligence agencies had better expertise. Asked if the men would be extradited to the US, he replied in the affirmative. The president said that if Iraq were attacked there would be political and economic fallout in Pakistan. He said the common man was talking about Iraq and any invasion of the country could cause a ‘kind of disturbance’ in Pakistan. He said Pakistan would not like to get involved in such a war, explaining that it already had ‘too much on its plate’.