article_snippet.sent: Dr Warren Weinstein (left), a 73-year-old economic adviser from the US, and 39-year-old Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto (right) were killed in a botched drone strike in January, which US officials say could have been postponed had it not been for a relaxed drone policy .
article_snippet.sent: CIA was seeking to destroy an Al Qaeda compound in Pakistan when the two captives were killed, along with Ahmed Faruq, an American described as a leader of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
article_snippet.sent: Al-Qaeda's English-language spokesman, a California rocker-turned jihadist, Adam Gadahn, died in a separate strike.
article_snippet.sent: Warren Weinstein is the seventh American to be killed by drones, the sixth who was hit inadvertently.
article_snippet.sent: In December American Luke Somers and South African Pierre Korkie were both killed when US Special Forces attempted to rescue American Luke Somers and South African Pierre Korkie in Yemen.