Musharraf: Al-Qaida Incapable of Second 9/11

Three years of intensive counterrorism efforts along the Pakistani-Afghan border have "broken the back" of al-Qaida, to the point where the terror group is no longer capable of mounting another attack against the U.S. on the scale of Sept. 11, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday.

Asked if he thought al-Qaida could carry out another 9/11, Musarraf told Fox News Channel's Rita Cosby: "I don't think so. I think we have broken them so much that they are not able to carry out another attack of that size."

Speaking the same day he met with President Bush in Washington, Musharraf said that repeated attacks on al-Qaida's base camps have rendered Osama bin Laden's terror network operationally unable to function.

"They cease to exist as a homogeneous group and they are on the run in Pakistan," he told Cosby.

"We have recovered equipment, we have recovered communications equipment, very modern communications equipment," the Pakistani leader explained. "We have even recovered their propaganda material, their computers and their CDs."

"Therefore, that is why I say that we've broken their back," he concluded.