President Obama announced earlier today that U.S. aid contractor Warren Weinstein, who had been held hostage by al-Qaeda in Pakistan since August 2011, was accidentally killed in a U.S. drone strike in January.
The Obama administration must review its protocols with the drone program and consider changes that will prevent such tragic mistakes in the future.
Another hostage, Italian national Giovanni Lo Porto, and the deputy leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent Ahmed Farouq, were also killed in the same drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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