Musharraf: Pakistan Is Not Hunting Bin Laden

While this isn't a big surprise, it is ridiculous to hear the reason behind Musharraf's not going after al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden. Musharraf says that the threat from the Taliban and other factions inside Pakistan are a bigger threat than bin Laden. What Musharraf isn't saying is the truth and that is the fact that he is scared to death to actually FIND bin Laden...and risk pissing off millions of jihadists who would revolt over his capture. Musharraf apparently has forgotten about the fact that al Qaeda itself has been behind at least three assassination attempts on his own ass and at the same time, his mess in Pakistan all started when bin Laden and al Qaeda #2 landed in his country.
The U.S. just came out with a statement that we are not happy with the flow of intelligence coming out of Pakistan - especially the NW territories and what Musharraf forgets is that incompetence by him in Pakistan has a direct effect on the welfare of U.S. troops and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
I've said it before...Musharraf's only hope to clean up his country is to form a coalition with the U.S. and NATO and truly blitz the NW area of Pakistan - eradicate the Taliban there along with the rebel tribes and in that process, we would see bin Laden's gang of excrement get flushed out.

Here's the full story from MSNBC.

Musharraf: Pakistan isn’t hunting bin Laden

PARIS - Pervez Musharraf says he still gets the question a lot: When will Osama bin Laden and his top deputy be caught? The Pakistani president insists it's more important for his 100,000 troops on the Afghan border to root out the Taliban than search for al-Qaida leaders.
That bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are still at large "doesn't mean much," the former general said Tuesday on the second day of a swing through Europe. He suggested they are far less a threat to his regime than Taliban-linked militants entrenched in Pakistan's west.
Bin Laden and al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding somewhere in the lawless tribal areas along Afghanistan's frontier with Pakistan.

"The 100,000 troops that we are using ... are not going around trying to locate Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, frankly," Musharraf told a conference at the French Institute for International Relations. "They are operating against terrorists, and in the process, if we get them, we will deal with them certainly."
A U.S. ally in its war on extremist groups, Musharraf has come under increasing pressure following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month and for his brief declaration of emergency rule in early November.