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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45288)	12/18/2003 9:15:43 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

A brave man talks ..on his destiny...Osama and Zahwari take a note <I wouldn’t say there is a race if you are meaning whether they get me or I get them-Mush> . “We are trying our best to locate them, but I wouldn’t say there is a race if you are meaning whether they get me or I get them. He recalled an earlier attempt on his life and four other brushes with death down the years. In 1972, for example, he recalled how he gave up a place on a small plane returning from the mountains to make way for the bodies of soldiers killed in an avalanche. “We haven’t found that Fokker yet, it crashed in the mountains.” “These kind of things have kept happening to me,” he said. “I’m not a superstitious man at all. But I’ve come to believe in destiny,” he said. “I can’t hibernate. So I don’t care about it.” Musharraf says he was shielded by destiny ISLAMABAD: Speaking in his Chief of Army Staff residence less than a mile from the bridge where a bomb exploded on Sunday seconds after his convoy passed, President Pervez Musharraf said he believed in destiny and brushed off the attempt on his life as an ‘occupational hazard’. Musharraf told Reuters in an interview that he believed Al Qaeda and its local collaborators were at the front of a queue of people who wanted to kill him. Musharraf said hopes of catching Osama Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al Zawahri were raised eight to 10 months ago in the Waziristan tribal area but no one was found. “We are trying our best to locate them, but I wouldn’t say there is a race if you are meaning whether they get me or I get them. He recalled an earlier attempt on his life and four other brushes with death down the years. In 1972, for example, he recalled how he gave up a place on a small plane returning from the mountains to make way for the bodies of soldiers killed in an avalanche. “We haven’t found that Fokker yet, it crashed in the mountains.” “These kind of things have kept happening to me,” he said. “I’m not a superstitious man at all. But I’ve come to believe in destiny,” he said. “I can’t hibernate. So I don’t care about it.” Musharraf said he had not thought about who would run Pakistan if he were killed. He agreed systems and institutions needed to be in place. “No country should rely on one personality that much.” Pressed on how succession might work, Musharraf was unsure, but he doubted whether it would be a matter of military rank. “I don’t think it’s a question of (the) next general, I think it’s the system... I haven’t thought of it really.” Asked whether preparing for this eventuality should be looked at urgently in light of Sunday’s near miss, Musharraf agreed: “One should, yes.” —Reuters