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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (47877)	2/24/2005 6:56:30 PM
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Success of war on terror, war taken to the terrorists in hte hinterland as oppose to them planning an assault, today it is them who are being dismantled. President General Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday. Terrorism: The president said army operations in the tribal areas against foreign terrorists had been very successful. “Everything was in place, even where they were manufacturing explosives - IEDs (improvised explosives devices) were being manufactured,” Musharraf said. “Their command structure was there, major communications structure, their psychological warfare, their computers, their CDs being produced to create psychological effects, their logistics bases,” he added. “All that has been taken over. Now they are on the run in the mountains and we dominate the valleys,” he said. He said no one knew where Osama Bin Laden and his top aides were hiding. “Once we locate him, we will eliminate him,” he said. And on his life.. Only war with India in 1965 saved President General Pervez Musharraf from being court martialed. This story of an early brush with authority is how Musharraf opens an account of his personal and professional life in a letter posted on an official website, www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk, opened on Thursday. “As a young second lieutenant, court martial proceedings were initiated against me for another disciplinary infringement. War with India broke out just in time to block the proceedings. My subsequent war performance and a gallantry award finally saved me from the court martial,” wrote Musharraf. He doesn’t say what his crime was, but a recent magazine article said he had gone absent without leave. Musharraf said he was lucky to escape certain death three times - other than during war - before becoming army chief. He also survived three assassination attempts while president. “This makes for some kind of a record for the Guinness Book of Records. I call myself ‘lucky’.” Gen Musharraf blamed the failure of a peace summit with then Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in 2001 on the “negative influence of some radical Indian government functionaries, in particular Mr (Lal Krishna) Advani”, then India’s home minister and deputy prime minister. A year later, the two countries stood on the brink of a fourth war with hundreds of thousands of soldiers facing each other. “It became a trial of who blinked first. India blinked. We decided to move our forces back,” according to Musharraf. Musharraf also said one of his most “embarrassing” moments as president was the admission a year ago by nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that he had sold nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. reuters