Clinton: 'Principle Terrorist Threat to U.S. Emanates From Pakistan' (For $1.5 Billion a Year)

A good relationship with Pakistan is vital to the United States' economic interests as well as its security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with Fox News.

"This is where the principle terrorist threat to the United States emanates from," Clinton told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren during a recent trip to Pakistan.

But concerns that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are using parts of Pakistan as a haven coincide with economic concerns, Clinton said. The war on terrorism costs money, and new terrorist attacks on U.S. soil "on top of an economic challenge would be devastating to us," she said.

Clinton arrived in Kabul on Monday to attend an international conference on Afghanistan after two days of talks in Islamabad. She has said she would urge Afghan President Hamid Karzai to follow through with pledges to improve governance and fight corruption.

She told Fox News that she still believes that "elements" in the Pakistani government may know where Usama bin Laden is hiding, but she also sees progress in the United States' partnership with the country.

"We have been getting, with Pakistani cooperation, a lot of the top (Al Qaeda and Taliban) leadership," Clinton said. The U.S. and its allies may not have Bin Laden or his inner circle yet, "but we've made a lot of progress."

Watch the second part of Greta's interview Tuesday night on "On the Record."

Earlier, aboard her plane from Pakistan, Clinton said U.S. efforts to convince deeply skeptical Pakistanis that American interest in their country extends beyond the fight against Islamist militants appeared to be gaining ground. To boost that shift, she announced a raft of new aid projects worth $500 million in Islamabad.

The projects, which include hospitals and new dams for badly needed electricity, are part of a $7.5 billion aid effort to win over Pakistanis suspicious about Washington's goals there and in neighboring Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are being killed in ever greater numbers in an insurgency with roots in Pakistan.

Mistrust over U.S. intentions in Pakistan is in part due to Washington's decision to turn away from the nuclear-armed country after enlisting its support to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

"Of course there is a legacy of suspicion that we inherited," she told reporters in Islamabad. "It is not going to be eliminated overnight."

But after a town hall meeting with Pakistani students, academics and businesspeople, Clinton said she noticed a slight change in opinion from a her last trip to Pakistan in October when she was hit by a barrage of intense and hostile questions at a similar event. She said Pakistani officials she had spoken with had noticed it, too.

"I don't want to overstate this but (the Pakistani officials) all said we really believe that the people are understanding that the United States wants to be a real partner to us and that it's not just killing terrorists," she told reporters traveling with her to an international conference in Afghanistan.

"I happen to think one of the best ways to kill terrorists is by being a good partner and by creating an atmosphere in which people have trust and confidence that what you're doing is in their best interests as well," she said. "Therefore, they are prepared to support their own government in those efforts. I could feel a change."

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[IranContraScumDid911]

Hillary Clinton needs to go on trial for treason. Funding the enemy is TREASON!!!! Pakistan IS your enemy!!!! Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports to be made public Sunday. New York Times 7/25/2010 She knew

[mcsaltens]

@IranContraScumDid911 afghanistan is not your enemy!! neither iran, wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your enemy is your own american goberment and the fucking elite that rules it. they usea innocent people and spin the situation with the media to make you believe they are terrorist, and your enemies........ wake the bloody ass up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IranContraScumDid911]

@mcsaltens I know that, I am against all current foreign wars. I 100% agree with you. However we have foreign enemies that they work with.

[IranContraScumDid911]

SHE IS LYING!!!! Hillary Clinton is officially a Satanic Prostitute in disguise tasked with destroying America. She is Al Qaeda, all American terrorism traces back to Clinton, Bush, and Obama ...... not Bin Laden. This is a Global socialist takeover of the American people. Beware, Pakistan is your enemy ...... not North Korea or Iran. 15 Pakistanis were arrested in the Uganda bombings, Financiers, Controllers, Plotters. The problem, there is no Al Shabaab in Pakistan. 15 Pakistani ISI Operators

[USAneedsaChange]

@IranContraScumDid911 You're not a sane person I am pretty sure...

[IranContraScumDid911]

@USAneedsaChange Your so decieved it is funny.

[Colt2571]

She just admitted the US created Al Queda!!!

[ljlassi]

Clinton sure knows the principles of cooperation. The Pakistanis are now closer than ever to the US and wildly celebrating the recent helicopter attack (burning US flags and dolls representing Obama).

[loulouverte1]

jewish bitch ! salope !

[JoeThePhilosopher]

Didn't I see this woman in one of the Vampire movies?

[malcolmx28]

Obama - Let the World see your proof if you are Truthful. - By the way Obama - I have an accusation - The US State Department gave its diplomats instructions to spy on other countries' representatives at the United Nations, according to a directive signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Diplomats were told to collect information about e-mail accounts, passwords and encryption keys, credit cards, biometric information and a whole lot more.

International treaties ban spying at the UN.

[Xxandrew01]

@IranContraScumDid911 Atleast osama bin laden is dead so no more planes in other buildings for us right?

[RPhasina]

@guitarland cant explain in words how much i agree with you!!!

[HudsonRand]

It's a racket. They are gangsters. The use a protection racketeering scam that is hundreds of years old. They are all on the same side when it comes to taking your money. There are only two sides: You and them. They make and sell the weapons you use against each other. You pay them again when you pay to rebuild the destruction of war. It's a win win situation for them, and lose lose on your side. Don't play the game.

[das98989898]

when soviets where in Afghanistan and USA being anti RED (Communist) ensured ouster of soviet s from Afghanistan by hook or by crook and dole out arms and dollar in billions .The Pakistani farts must have paid penny and fed dry cakes to afghan fighters and minted money in tons especially the army. Afghans being born fighters and nothing else in between where left high and dry but the paki swines got the taste of BLOOD MONEY FROM THE AFGHAN ANTICS. terrorist business on from that day onwards.