Told Osama in Pak,Mush lunged at Afghan intel chief

Saleh had confronted Musharraf back in 2007 on issue of bin Laden's presence near Abbottabad.

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf “lunged” at the then Afghan intelligence chief in 2007 after being confronted with inputs on al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s presence in Mansehra city,not far from Abbottabad,where he was eventually killed by US forces.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai had to intervene to save his former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh in the meeting that took place four years back,American news network CBS News reported.

Saleh said he had confronted Musharraf back in 2007 on the issue of bin Laden.

“He told him that Afghan intelligence believed bin Laden was in the Pakistani city of Mansehra. Saleh told us Musharraf was so offended that he lunged at him,and that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had to intervene,” CBS News said in a report.

Mansehra is just 19 kilometres from where bin Laden was eventually found and killed last month by US Navy SEALs.

Highly critical of Pakistan,Saleh said: “It should be a hostile country,a hostile state”.

Asked if he considered Pakistan the enemy of the US,Saleh suggested that Pakistan has been the nerve centre of many of America’s problems.

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“The amount of pain Pakistan has inflicted upon the United States in the past 12 years is unprecedented. No other country has inflicted that amount of pain upon your nation,” Saleh was quoted as saying.

“I mean,they generate fear for your country. They take your money. They do not cooperate. They created the Taliban. They are number one in nuclear proliferation,you name it. Every pain (the) US has in that part of the world,the hub of that is Pakistan,” he said.