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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45620)	3/1/2004 2:32:09 AM
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Musharraf told us, ‘We’ve got guys inside. The people who provide fresh fruits and vegetables and herd the goats‘ US in Wana after deal on Dr Qadeer’ NEW YORK: The US has struck a deal with Pakistan to allow US troops to hunt for Osama Bin Laden this spring in an area of Pakistan where he is believed to be operating, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday. Thousands of US troops will be deployed in a tribal area of northwest Pakistan in return for Washington’s support of President Pervez Musharraf’s pardon of the Pakistani scientist who this month admitted leaking nuclear arms secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh wrote in the issue that goes on sale on Monday. Full disclosure of Pakistani scientist Dr AQ Khan’s activities would have exposed him as “the worst nuclear-arms proliferator in the world,” an intelligence official is quoted as saying. “It’s a quid pro quo,” according to a former senior intelligence official. “We’re going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing President Musharraf to deal with Dr Khan.” President Musharraf has also offered other help in the hunt for Bin Laden, according to the article. “Musharraf told us, ‘We’ve got guys inside. The people who provide fresh fruits and vegetables and herd the goats’ for Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda followers,” the intelligence official added. “It’s going to be a full-court press,” one Pentagon planner was quoted as saying. The article added that some of the most highly skilled US Special Forces units would be shifted from Iraq to Pakistan. —Reuters

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45620)	3/1/2004 3:08:36 AM
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Pakistan flatly denied on Monday a report that it had struck a deal to allow U.S. troops to hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on its territory. "This report has no truth in it and there is no such deal," military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said. The latest issue of the New Yorker weekly said thousands of U.S. troops would be deployed in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan in return for Washington's support for Islamabad's pardon last month of Abdul Qadeer Khan, a scientist who admitted leaking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea . The article quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying it was "a quid pro quo" deal with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. "We're going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing Musharraf to deal with Khan." Sultan rejected this, saying: "There are no quid pro quos on issues of national sovereignty. We totally deny it." He said he could not comment on reports that the United States planned to shift an elite commando unit that took part in the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq to hunt for bin Laden. "If the U.S. is shifting a special unit from Iraq into Afghanistan, I have no comment on that, but there is none coming in to Pakistan," he said.