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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday defended continuing foreign aid to Pakistan despite indications that Pakistani officials have long known the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.

Bid Laden was killed by U.S. forces Sunday in a compound north of Islamabad.

“We should not proceed in a kneejerk, hasty way,” Kerry said. “We should see if this can be turned to an advantage by getting some other things done we need to get done.”

Kerry said that the U.S. already puts strings on military assistance and “very little of that money has been flowing.”

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