“When FBI Director Louis Freeh met [Pakistani leader Pervez] Musharraf in Lahore on April 6 [2000] and pleaded for help on bin Laden, he found the general ‘polite but unhelpful.’ Musharraf explained that he had ‘personal assurances from [Taliban leader] Mullah [Mohammad] Omar’ that bin Laden was innocent of terrorism.”
– Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 515