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Pakistan's President Believes U.S. Will Launch Strike Against Afghanistan
Monday, October 01, 2001
(9:55 AM ET)
By Amir Zia / The Associated Press

"Americans don't have the courage to come here," Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- AP
Pakistan's president said Monday that he believes the United States will launch a military strike against Afghanistan, after the Taliban's supreme leader told the Afghan people that "Americans don't have the courage to come here."

The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that "it appears that the United States will take action in Afghanistan." Asked if the Taliban's days are numbered, he replied: "It appears so."

"It appears that the United States will take action in Afghanistan, and we have conveyed this to the Taliban," Musharraf said, referring to the Islamic militia that rules most of Afghanistan and refuses to hand over Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.

He added that Pakistan had tried its best to head off a confrontation over bin Laden and the Saudi exile's lieutenants.
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