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Nourished in conflict zones where basically civil wars and sectarian struggles and social and political struggles tend to unfold. professor, i want to with your permission read the statement bin the white house press secretary. it was released just moments ago as we await the president of the united states, you see the press room at the white house. the president is expected to make a statement about ten minutes from now. we will of course be carrying that to you live. folks at home and professor, i want to read you the statement by the press secretary and it says it is with tremendous sorrow that we recently concluded that a u.s. government counterterrorism operation in january killed two innocent hostages sheld by al qaeda. our hearts go out to dr. warren weinstein, an american held since 2011 and giovanni loporto. ....
Have turned around. back to the news story we have been covering the confirmation by the president of the united states of america that two different cia drone attacks on the pakistan and afghanistan border killed two innocent hostages that were being held by the al qaeda terrorist group. one dr. warren weinstein, american citizen. we have been hearing a little bit about dr. weinstein who was just wrapping up his time in pakistan and was really celebrating his going away party to return home to his family here in the united states of america when he was taken by al qaeda. and giovani laporto. ....
For his push for his relief. bill: we re going to pause for a moment and let our fox stations join us for the announcement from the white house. bill: this is fox news coverage of the president s statement, americans killed in captivity. i m bill hemmer in new york. two hostages one american, one italian, held by al-qaeda for several years killed during a counterterrorism operation that we now understand involved a drone. eastern afghanistan, near the pakistani border. two other americans working on behalf of al-qaeda also reported dead in separate operations. one of those americans is adam gadahn who was the first english-speaking american to join al-qaeda, and he was introduced to the world in 2004 by way of videotape. he was born in california, moved to pakistan in 1998. he became the face at times for ....
The tribal areas of pakistan. you can watch it from drones. you can listen to telephones. but as al qaeda got off the telephone, your intelligence becomes more iffy and more iffy. so the fact this happened tells me it was probably a signature strike they saw from the air, what looked like the al qaeda compound spent months confirming that. once they went to the president white house saying here comes president obama, bob, i m going to cut you off. here comes president obama. this morning i want to express our grief and condolences to the families of two hostages one american dr. warren weinstein, and an italian giovanni lo porto, who were tragically killed in a u.s. counter-terrorism operation. warren and giovanni were aid workers in pakistan devoted to ....
The al-qaeda terror operation around the world. in september of 2006, gadahn was on a videotape introduced by ayman al-zawahiri. later in 2013, august of that year, he was on video praising the death of our u.s. ambassador, chris stevens, in libya and urging muslims to offer militants rewards so that they can kill others. apparently, the strikes happened in january and we are finding out about them now. this morning i want to express our grief and condolences to the families of two hostages one american dr. warren weinstein and an italian, giovanni lo porto, who were tragically killed in a u.s. counterterrorism operation. warren and giovanni were aid workers in pakistan devoted to improving the lives of pakistani ....