And in a separate drone operation, Adam Gadahn was killed. Ahmed Farouq, an al-Qaeda leader from Pennsylvania, was taken out in the strike that killed Weinstein and Lo Porto. Two American al Qaeda members were killed. "Based on the intelligence that we had obtained at the time, including hundreds of hours of surveillance, we believed that this was an al Qaeda compound, that no civilians were present," Obama said. The attack targeted al Qaeda operatives in a camp on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. American Warren Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto were accidentally killed in a January 14 strike by a CIA drone. The two aid workers held by al Qaeda died in that fog of war. "It is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and our fight against terrorists specifically, mistakes, sometimes deadly mistakes, can occur," President Barack Obama said. American intelligence apparently didn't know the two hostages were there. drone attack on an al Qaeda compound in Pakistan. The use of drones to take out terror targets has always been controversial, but it became tragically so with the news that an American hostage and an Italian hostage were killed in January during a U.S.
They were killed during an attack by an American drone.
Hostage Warren Weinstein's daughter Alisa - living and working in Chicago at the time - was a passionate crusader for her father's release.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - The ABC7 I-Team looked into the accidental deaths of two hostages being held at an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan.
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