The Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, says the US threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age after the September 11 attacks if he did not help America's war on terrorism.
General Musharraf says the threat was delivered by Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, to his director of intelligence.
"The intelligence director told me that [Mr Armitage] said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age'," General Musharraf said in the interview to be shown tomorrow on the CBS network news program 60 Minutes.
It was insulting, the president said, "a very rude remark".
But, General Musharraf said he reacted responsibly.
"One has to think and take actions in the interests of the nation and that is what I did," he said.
Neither the White House, nor the State Department would comment on the conversation.
General Musharraf says the threat was delivered by Richard Armitage, then the deputy secretary of state, to his director of intelligence.
"The intelligence director told me that [Mr Armitage] said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age'," General Musharraf said in the interview to be shown tomorrow on the CBS network news program 60 Minutes.
It was insulting, the president said, "a very rude remark".
But, General Musharraf said he reacted responsibly.
"One has to think and take actions in the interests of the nation and that is what I did," he said.
Neither the White House, nor the State Department would comment on the conversation.
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