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Al-Qaeda Confirms US Strike Killed American Spokesman
- Thursday June 25, 2015
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Al-Qaeda has confirmed that a US drone strike earlier this year killed its English-language spokesman, a California native known as Azzam the American, SITE Intelligence Group reported today.
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FBI Helped Family of Al-Qaeda Hostage Make Ransom Payment: Report
- Thursday April 30, 2015
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The FBI facilitated a 2012 ransom payment of $250,000 to Al-Qaeda from the family of a kidnapped US aid worker later killed in a drone strike, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday.
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Hostage Locations Difficult to Track and May be Getting Harder
- Friday April 24, 2015
- World News | Reuters
The US drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfalls that former and current US officials say appear to be growing more frequent as militants expand their safe havens and as Washington gathers less on-the-ground human intelligence.
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American, Italian Hostages Inadvertently Killed in US Counter-Terror Operation: Barack Obama
- Thursday April 23, 2015
- World News | Reuters
An American and an Italian who had been held hostage for several years by Al Qaeda in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan were inadvertently killed in a US counter-terrorism operation in January, US President Barack Obama today.
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Qaeda Warns US Hostage Risks 'Lonely Death'
- Friday August 15, 2014
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Al Qaeda has urged the family of an American kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 to press their government to negotiate an exchange or face the risk of his "dying a lonely death".
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US reviewing apparent video from kidnapped American: report
- Friday December 27, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive.
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US reviewing apparent video from kidnapped American: report
- Thursday December 26, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al-Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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In video, American held hostage in Pak appeals to Obama for help
- Thursday December 26, 2013
- World News | Associated Press
A 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by Al Qaeda more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released on Thursday to negotiate his release, saying he feels "totally abandoned and forgotten."
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Al Qaeda releases video of American hostage
- Monday May 7, 2012
- World News | Associated Press
In a video released on Sunday by Al Qaeda, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.
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Pak Taliban admit to holding Shahbaz Taseer for first time
- Friday March 16, 2012
- World News | Declan Walsh, The New York Times
A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...
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Al-Qaeda Confirms US Strike Killed American Spokesman
- Thursday June 25, 2015
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Al-Qaeda has confirmed that a US drone strike earlier this year killed its English-language spokesman, a California native known as Azzam the American, SITE Intelligence Group reported today.
- www.ndtv.com
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FBI Helped Family of Al-Qaeda Hostage Make Ransom Payment: Report
- Thursday April 30, 2015
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The FBI facilitated a 2012 ransom payment of $250,000 to Al-Qaeda from the family of a kidnapped US aid worker later killed in a drone strike, The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Hostage Locations Difficult to Track and May be Getting Harder
- Friday April 24, 2015
- World News | Reuters
The US drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfalls that former and current US officials say appear to be growing more frequent as militants expand their safe havens and as Washington gathers less on-the-ground human intelligence.
- www.ndtv.com
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American, Italian Hostages Inadvertently Killed in US Counter-Terror Operation: Barack Obama
- Thursday April 23, 2015
- World News | Reuters
An American and an Italian who had been held hostage for several years by Al Qaeda in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan were inadvertently killed in a US counter-terrorism operation in January, US President Barack Obama today.
- www.ndtv.com
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Qaeda Warns US Hostage Risks 'Lonely Death'
- Friday August 15, 2014
- World News | Agence France-Presse
Al Qaeda has urged the family of an American kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 to press their government to negotiate an exchange or face the risk of his "dying a lonely death".
- www.ndtv.com
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US reviewing apparent video from kidnapped American: report
- Friday December 27, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive.
- www.ndtv.com
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US reviewing apparent video from kidnapped American: report
- Thursday December 26, 2013
- World News | Agence France-Presse
The State Department is working to authenticate a video showing a US contractor held by Al-Qaeda militants in what could the first sign since 2012 that he is alive, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
- www.ndtv.com
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In video, American held hostage in Pak appeals to Obama for help
- Thursday December 26, 2013
- World News | Associated Press
A 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by Al Qaeda more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released on Thursday to negotiate his release, saying he feels "totally abandoned and forgotten."
- www.ndtv.com
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Al Qaeda releases video of American hostage
- Monday May 7, 2012
- World News | Associated Press
In a video released on Sunday by Al Qaeda, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands.
- www.ndtv.com
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Pak Taliban admit to holding Shahbaz Taseer for first time
- Friday March 16, 2012
- World News | Declan Walsh, The New York Times
A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...
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