in April 2007, then President Musharraf is reported as acknowledging that Osama may be in Pakistan. A cable dated April 10, 2007, from the embassy‘s Charge d‘Affaires Peter Bodde reports on a meeting between Senator John McCain and Mr Musharraf. The President allegedly said that he believed Osama and Ayman al Zawahiri – the man who many believe will replace Osama as the head of Al-Qaeda – were „hiding in Bajaur agency, since it was in (Afghan militant leader) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar‘s territory and bordered Afghanistan‘s Kunar province. „