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2011, a source tells cnn. his family took a risk paying a ransom to contacts claiming to represent his captors. >> it seems that i have been totally abandoned. and forgotten. >> but the money did not secure his freedom and instead his captors made new demands for a prisoner exchange. >> it is very clear. >> suggesting trading weinstein for terrorists including a prominent female jihadi serving an 86 year sentence in the u.s. the family now fears the money may have gone to the wrong people. >> unfortunately what happens is many families get sucked in to a farce. the family is very emotional bec...

It was only a year after warren weinstein was abducted from his home in pakistan in 2011 a source tells cnn that his family took a risk paying a ransom to contacts claiming to represent his captors. >> it seems that i have been totally abandoned. and forgotten. >> but the money did not secure weinstein's freedom. instead, his captors made new demands for a prisoner exchange. >> the crayon very clear on this. >> suggesting trading weinstein for an alleged terrorist, a prompt nent female jihadi currently serving an 86-year sentence in the u.s. the weinstein family fears the money may have gone t...

If you recognize that there's a threat and you recognize that capture is not an option we have to look long and hard at counterterrorism operations and make sure we're applying the highest standards. >> there's another american being held hostage along the border between afghanistan and pakistan. together with her canadian husband. what can you tell us about efforts under way to try get them out? >> as we talked about with other hostages before the u.s. government is using every tool we can whether it's the intelligence community combing through every piece of information they have to try to f...

We're all fearful, but the pope is very calm. that was a direct quote. mean tile the italian prosecutor did not explain what was behind the timing of the arrest. as i mentioned, wolf they had been monitoring the cell for ten years. >> suspicious stuff, but important, thanks very much. tonight a new promise by president obama to identify and fix what went wrong when a u.s. drone strike accidentally killed two al qaeda hostages including an american. we're learning more about the failed efforts to free the u.s. aid worker warren weinstein while he was being helded by the terrorists our chief n...

Journalist james foley, they warned the iraqis an apparent reference to isis wanted weinstein. were preparing an orange suit for him. meaning the clothes worn by other isis hostages during their beheadings. when u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl was released by the taliban, one of weinstein's alleged captors bragged that he was also one of bergdahl's kidnappers. u.s. intelligence observed not four bodies being removed as expected but six. the additional two now believed to be weinstein and fellow hostage, the italian joe vanni loporo. but weinstein's captors kept reaching out. the final exact w...