[Lion's Cub]

Are you pretty certain about that?

after U.S. officials provided information about them

Or did we make him an offer he couldn't refuse?

[Angelus Errare]

Al-Qaeda has tried to kill Musharraf on several occasions.

Omar Sheikh, the guy who killed Daniel Pearl and al-Qaeda's top hitman in Pakistan, had a standing order to assassinate Musharraf and his inner circle. The car bomb that was used to blow up the US consulate in Islamabad was originally intended to be used to kill Musharraf.

While the Pakistanis do support terrorism, the general rule is that while al-Qaeda operatives are arrested and extradited (if the Interior Ministry finds them), the Kashmiri terrorist groups get the revolving door jail treatment. And Musharraf is getting paid quite nicely for his willingness to be so accomodating.