Inside the fight to free Warren Weinstein

[geek tragedy]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/politics/warren-weinstein-congress-hostage-release/index.html

Washington (CNN)—In 2011, al Qaeda took Warren Weinstein hostage. Then, about a year later, his family paid money to his captors, said a Pakistani source who was in regular contact with the kidnappers.

It did not lead to the American aid worker's release, and he was inadvertently killed in an anti-terror strike in January, the White House announced Thursday.

After the transfer of funds in 2012, the captors, who never referred to themselves as "al Qaeda," but instead as "Afghans," began demanding prisoners be released in exchange for Weinstein, most prominently Dr. Aafia Siddiqui of Pakistan, the source said.

Anguishing story, but it's not clear at all what could have been done to obtain his release.

[Jefferson23]

1. It is a horrible position to be in, and the money they did send did nothing. RIP to a good man. n/t