US President George W. Bush and President General Pervez Musharraf discussed the war on terrorism by telephone on Tuesday, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan. "They discussed good co-operation in the war on terrorism" as well as developments in Afghanistan and India-Pakistan relations during their 15-minute conversation, McClellan told reporters.
McClellan declined to say whether the two leaders had discussed the location of Osama bin Laden, but said the United States has a "general" idea of where he is.
Those comments came after CIA Director Porter Goss caused a stir with a Sunday magazine interview in which he said he had "an excellent idea" of the al Qaeda leader's whereabouts.
"Director Goss was referring to the general area he's believed to be in. If we knew exactly where he was, we would go get him," said McClellan.
Bush has said he wants to capture bin Laden "dead or alive," and US officials have regularly pointed to a mountainous stretch of land on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border as his likely location.
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