The United States is interested in making "sure we have access to any information that could contribute to our common goal here, which is continuing our counterterrorism cooperation and making progress against extremists in Pakistan and elsewhere."

Pakistani officials have also hinted at extradition to the U.S. and noted that neither Saudi Arabia nor Yemen have requested the women be extradited back to their home countries.

Is the U.S. going to indict them for providing material support to a terrorist organization? Is cooking and cleaning for Osama bin Laden or their sons providing material support? That would be taking the already vague and overbroad law to an absurd new level.

Why would the U.S. want to obtain custody of the women (and maybe also some of the children?) Perhaps to keep their accounts of Hamza bin Laden being killed or captured from getting further exposure?

Where would we take them? Guantanamo? What then, if neither Saudi Arabia or Yemen wanted them back? I can't imagine the U.S. would indict them, unless it's the only way to get grounds to extradite them. If it did indict them, where would they bring charges? A military commission at Guantanamo or New York? New York would be some payback at Congress and New York officials who prote