Nancy Birdsall was interviewed on Marketplace about U.S. aid to Pakistan post finding Osama bin Laden
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We're halfway through dispensing more than $7 billion in aid to Pakistan. Now some people think it should come with more strings attached.
TESS VIGELAND: The country where Osama bin Laden had been hiding out has received more than $18 billion in U.S. aid since 2002. In 2009, Congress approved another five-year package of development aid for Pakistan. In return, Pakistan was supposed to help in the war against terror.
Now that we know Osama bin Laden was living within miles of Pakistan's Military Academy, questions are being raised about whether U.S. financial support should come with more strings attached. Marketplace's John Dimsdale has that story from Washington.
JOHN DIMSDALE: It turns out that for several years, bin Laden was living in relative luxury in a compound built especially for him near a major Pakistani military installation. Today, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Michigan's Carl Levin, said Pakistan's leaders will have to answer how the world's number one terrorist was able to hold out there for so long.