He was an Urdu-speaking aid worker on contract with U. Yet, despite efforts that the Obama Administration described on Thursday as extensive, no SEAL s ever located or attempted to rescue Weinstein, who was seventy-three years old when he died.
Nor did the White House negotiate his release. Last May, after long talks with the Taliban, U. Special Forces flew into Waziristan to accept custody of Bowe Bergdahl, an Army soldier who had wandered off his base, on the Afghan border with Pakistan, and been captured by fighters with the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network. Weinstein did not figure into the deal and was left behind. Judging by the videos that his captors released, he was ill and deeply demoralized.
It reminds us that the problem with drones is not just that their operators sometimes make mistakes. It is that the heavy reliance—in time, dollars, and bureaucratic priorities—on a technological panacea for the problem of terrorism can cause a government to lose sight of the people on the ground. He had lived in Pakistan for seven years, working on economic development projects.
He worked for an international aid group called Welthungerhilfe. Warren Weinstein's family spoke to the BBC in Image source, Handout. Image source, AFP. Warren Weinstein appeared in a video in He also announced a review into the tragedy.
Who was Adam Gadahn? McCain: We rely on drones too much in many areas. Two hostages killed in U. Weinstein's congressman: Our country let Warren down. American mouthpiece of al Qaeda killed by U. Story highlights Warren Weinstein's wife says the family is still searching for answers Officials say Weinstein and another al Qaeda hostage were accidentally killed in a U. His wife said she was still searching for answers Thursday after U.
Gunmen abducted Weinstein in from his home in Lahore, Parkistan. They posed as neighbors, offered food and then pistol-whipped the American aid worker and tied up his guards, his family said.
Just a few months after Weinstein's capture, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released a recording claiming the terror group was holding Weinstein -- and demanding, among other things, that the United States end airstrikes in Pakistan. Read More. Weinstein -- a husband, father and grandfather from Rockville, Maryland -- was 73 years old when he was killed, according to a family website detailing information about his case. He worked in Pakistan as a contractor for the U. Agency for International Development from to , the website says.
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