In an interview with CNN, Bush said Wednesday he would order military action inside Pakistan if intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden or other "top terror" (western propaganda word) leaders were hiding there as he did in case of Afghanistan.
With bin Laden still at large five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and believed to be hiding somewhere along the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Bush disputed any suggestion that Pakistan has not done enough to hunt down so call "terrorist leaders".
Bush meets Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the White House on Friday and again next week, IRIB reported.
In a news conference last week, Bush said he could not send thousands of troops into Pakistan to search for bin Laden without an invitation from the government.
In the television interview, Bush was asked whether he would give the order for American troops to kill or capture bin Laden or other leaders if good intelligence pointed to their whereabouts, even if it was inside Pakistan's borders
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