BLITZER: I want you to listen to this exchange I had with President Bush in New York last week on the hunt for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda leaders. Listen to this.
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BLITZER: If you had good actionable intelligence in Pakistan -- where they were -- would you give the order to kill them or capture them?
BUSH: Absolutely.
BLIZTER: And go into Pakistan?
BUSH Absolutely.
BLITZER: Even though the Pakistanis say that's their sovereign territory?
BUSH: Absolutely. We would -- we would take the action necessary to bring them to justice.
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BLITZER: Very blunt words from President Bush. Irrespective of your sovereignty, if they knew where bin Laden was in Pakistan, they would go in there.
MUSHARRAF: Well, my comments are -- I have been giving my comments that this is a sensitive area of -- and our decision is that we operate on our side of the border and U.S. forces and allies operate on the other side.
Now, having said that, we are hunting Osama and [Ayman al-] Zawahiri together. We are on the hunt; we are on the lookout for him. When we locate him, we have to take action; we have to take effective action to do away with him. Now --
BLITZER: What would be wrong if the United States tried to capture or kill bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, his number two, in Pakistan?
MUSHARRAF: Well, it is a very sensitive issue. We should not be discussing how and who is to deliver the blow, but, whenever we locate him, we have to deal with him. And let's leave it at that and let's not get into the sensitivities and who and how it will be done.