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.

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