article_snippet.sent: Lo Porto work and Lo Porto life, as Lo Porto knew it then, came to a halt on January 19, 2012.
article_snippet.sent: That's when, according to Italy's state-run ANSA news agency, four armed men burst into the building where Lo Porto lived and abducted Lo Porto along with colleague Bernd Muehlenbeck.
article_snippet.sent: Two years later, Lo Porto was dead -- killed accidentally by a U.S. drone strike, according to American authorities.
article_snippet.sent: Some of those friends in Italy, England and beyond pressed for Lo Porto release after Lo Porto was taken captive, urging Italy's government and newspaper editors to get Lo Porto story out, ANSA reported.
article_snippet.sent: his story said that al Qaeda (after first claiming Lo Porto was being held) denied abducting Lo Porto, as did the Pakistani Taliban.
article_snippet.sent: Muehlenbeck, a German national, was freed last October, at which time Lo Porto said that Lo Porto and Lo Porto colleague had been separated, according to ANSA.
article_snippet.sent: But Lo Porto never got the chance to savor freedom again, like Lo Porto German counterpart.
article_snippet.sent: Lo Porto's death left those at Lo Porto
article_snippet.sent: And then there are Lo Porto family members like Lo Porto mother, who ANSA reports became "another person" after her son's kidnapping.