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Al Qaeda plans to assassinate Musharraf: Report

US intelligence agencies have picked up information indicating Al Qaeda terrorists' plan to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

An intelligence report from Southwest Asia, which has not been confirmed, stated that Al Qaeda terrorists were trying to kill Musharraf to precipitate an Indo-Pak conflict, The Washington Times reported.

"Al Qaeda views a conflict as good for the organisation. The war would make it harder for Pakistan to cooperate with US military and intelligence forces now searching for Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan," it said.

On the militant outfit's efforts to exploit the Indo-Pak standoff, Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld said: "It would be, you know, most unfortunate if someone saw it in their interest to create incidents on either side of the LoC or the border in the hope that those incidents would be judged to be by the other party and thereby incite people to activities they would otherwise avoid."

PTI

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