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Musharraf: U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan 'into stone age' (Associated Press, September 21st , 2006)

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan says the United States threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age after the 9-11 attacks if he did not help America's war on terror.

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

“The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age,”' Mr. Musharraf said in the interview to be shown Sunday on the CBS television network.

It was insulting, Mr. Musharraf said. “I think it was a very rude remark,” he told reporter Steve Kroft.

Well, it sure would have been if it were true, but our sources say this is an outrageous lie and that all Armitage did was threaten to bomb them back to the Middle Ages.