Posted AT 3:57 AM EST on 19/08/08
America's 'indispensable' strongman was no more than half-hearted ally
On Sept. 12, 2001, Pakistan's leader, Pervez Musharraf, was called out of a meeting to take a call from U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. "You are either with us or against us," Mr. Powell told him. The next day, deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage told the head of Pakistan's spy service that unless Islamabad backed Washington in its war against the 9/11 terrorists, Pakistan risked being bombed into the Stone Age.
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