Bin Laden Wives and Children to be Deported

Marco Werman talks to Declan Walsh, New York Times Pakistan correspondent, about the news that Pakistan plans to deport Osama Bin Laden’s three wives and two adult daughters to their home countries, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Bin Laden’s relatives have been in Pakistani custody since last May’s US commando raid on the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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