(2 Apr 2002)
1. Wide shot interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf at news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's President:
"Yes, there is no one hundred percent surety (that wanted al-Qaida member Abu Zubaydah has been captured), so therefore I wouldn't like to comment on it, but whoever was taken in, the Al-Qaida members have been handed over (to the Americans)."
3. Cutaway journalists
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's President:
"My guess was, right from the beginning, I was saying his being outside, I was placing less probability outside of Afghanistan (I think it is unlikely that Osama Bin Laden has left Afghanistan), because I thought he would like to move with his own personnel security, with all the Al-Qaida people around him. Certainly he wouldn't like to go with huge entourage of thousands of Al-Qaida people around him in other countries. He would be too obvious, he would be located and it wouldn't be very practical for him, therefore I thought probably he was here. And when (if) he is here, with all the operation that has gone on, I thought (that) since he has somehow evaded all the, nobody has access to him or has information from him, I thought maybe he is dead. I really can't be sure, my guess is as good or as bad as yours. He could be dead or alive I don't know, but if you ask my view maybe he is dead."
5. Pan over delegates
6. Close up journalist
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's President:
"I think here in Pakistan there is no problem, our law enforcement agency, our armed forces will act. Information needs to be given and that is given by the coalition and the United States and EU and this is functioning very well. There's no requirement of a change in this modality."
8. Karzai and Musharraf
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's President:
"Our intelligence organisation and our ISA (army intelligence) does what any other intelligence organisation in the world does. It acts in accordance with the governments dictates and the governments desires, and let me assure you that the ISA is doing or not doing whatever I tell them or don't tell them to do."
10. Pan across podium
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's President:
"To show our solidarity with our Afghan brothers here and my personnel relationship with my brother Karzai, I am very humbly am presenting him a cheque of 10 million dollars from the Pakistan state."
12. Cutaway journalist
13. Karzai showing cheque to journalist
14. Karzai and Musharraf leave
STORYLINE:
Pakistan's president said on Tuesday that his government has turned over around fifty newly captured Al-Qaida suspects to the United States.
But Musharraf, speaking at a news conference in Kabul, was unable to confirm claims from Washington that Abu Zubaydeh, a top Al-Qaida lieutenant, was part of the group.
With the help of US intelligence information, Pakistan intelligence organisations and law enforcement agencies rounded up the suspects in an anti-terror sweep, Musharraf said.
But he added that he did not think it was necessary for US forces based in Afghanistan to join in future raids.
He said the sweep showed his forces can handle such operations without cross-border forays by American troops.
Musharraf dismissed reports that Al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, claiming he would be unable to move around another country with his large contingent of bodyguards.
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