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Taliban's Days 'Numbered'
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
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"Administration policy is to go after the al-Qaida network and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. And if the Taliban does not realize that this ... might lead to their demise, they will soon come to that conclusion."

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
The president of Pakistan said Monday that U.S. military strikes against targets in Afghanistan appear inevitable and that the days of Taliban rule are numbered.

The stark warning from Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in an interview with the BBC, suggested the Bush administration plans an offensive not only against accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden but also against the Taliban movement that controls about 90 percent of Afghanistan and refuses to hand over bin Laden.

Musharraf, whose country helped put the Taliban in power, expressed belief that the outcome will be the end of the radical Islamic militia's rule.
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