Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows

Source: CBS News

(CBS News) CBS News confirms Pakistan has informed the United States that the ISI will allow access to Osama bin Laden's three widows who were left behind in the raid that killed the terrorist near Islamabad. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports it will be "direct access," meaning U.S. government agents will be able to interview them, and not just submit questions.

The relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. has seen ups and downs since the CIA-coordinated raid that killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad.

Despite the back-and-forth relationship in the wake of the bin Laden raid, in his interview with "60 Minutes", President Barack Obama said: "We've been able to kill more terrorists on Pakistani soil than just about any place else. We could not have done that without Pakistani cooperation."

CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports that Pakistan's prime minister said recently that, in the future, any unauthorized raids within Pakistan will be met with "full force." He, of course, didn't find out about the raid that killed bin Laden until it was over, and the American commandos were safely out of the country.

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border... they need to have the safe houses further within their borders.

to keep the safe houses safe, though?

Actually we can squeeze them for lot more cooperation on WOT.

I was hoping for zero cooperation, so as to make it more likely the US government would stop giving Pakistan money.

Besides, the Pakistan government has probably already told them that if they rat out any Pakistanis to the US, they and their families are dead meat.