Musharraf: US threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/11

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says the United States threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age after the September 11 attacks if he did not help America’s war on terror.

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says the United States threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age after the September 11 attacks if he did not help America’s war on terror.

Musharraf says the threat was delivered by Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, to Musharraf’s intelligence director, the Pakistani leader told CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes.

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