US Aid Worker Weinstein Pleaded for Release

The American aid worker who President Barack Obama said Thursday was killed accidentally in a U.S. anti-terror operation had been held by by al-Qaida since 2011 and had appealed to the administration to free him. Warren Weinstein, 73, was kidnapped August 13, 2011 by unknown armed men in Lahore, Pakistan. A resident of Rockville, Maryland, Weinstein was a business development expert working in Pakistan on a contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development. He had been in...

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