article_snippet.sent: A senior Pakistani official told CNN that after U.S. hostage Warren Weinstein was kidnapped, U.S. put out feelers to members of the militant Haqqani Network and to the Pakistani Taliban, which are both allied to al Qaeda, to see if these groups might be able to initiate some kind of negotiation about U.S. hostage Warren Weinstein.
article_snippet.sent: According to A senior Pakistani official, nothing came of Weinstein was kidnapped, the Pakistani government put out feelers to members of the militant Haqqani Network and to the Pakistani Taliban, which are both allied to al Qaeda, to see if these groups might be able to initiate some kind of negotiation about Weinstein.
article_snippet.sent: A senior Pakistani official says that during Weinstein was kidnapped, the Pakistani government put out feelers to members of the militant Haqqani Network and to the Pakistani Taliban, which are both allied to al Qaeda, to see if these groups might be able to initiate some kind of negotiation about Weinstein.
article_snippet.sent: According to New America, which tracks drone strikes in Pakistan, CIA drone attacks happened in Shawal, North Waziristan, on January 19 in which at least four militants were killed; also on January 15 in Tehsil Ladha, South Waziristan, in which at least five militants were killed; and on January 4 in Datta Khel, South Waziristan, in which at least eight militants were killed.
article_snippet.sent: Who exactly carried out Weinstein's kidnapping from Weinstein house 3½  years ago in the Pakistani megacity of Lahore has until now not been clear.
article_snippet.sent: A senior Pakistani counterterrorism official told CNN that members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU, kidnapped Weinstein at Weinstein Lahore home on August 13, 2011.
article_snippet.sent: IMU is an Uzbek terrorist group headquartered in the tribal regions of Pakistan along IMU border with Afghanistan.
article_snippet.sent: According to A senior Pakistani counterterrorism official, the leader of the Weinstein kidnapping cell was a relative of Tahir Yuldashev, the former IMU leader killed in a CIA drone strike in the Pakistani tribal regions in 2009.
article_snippet.sent: The initial lead that traced Weinstein's kidnapping to IMU came from another high-profile kidnapping in Pakistan two weeks after Weinstein's abduction.
article_snippet.sent: Shahbaz Taseer, the son of a leading Pakistani liberal politician Salman Taseer -- who was killed by Pakistani militants eight months earlier -- was kidnapped in Lahore on August 26, 2011.
article_snippet.sent: At the scene of Taseer's kidnapping one of the kidnappers dropped a cell phone and SIM card that eventually led Pakistani officials to focus on the IMU group in Lahore, according to A senior Pakistani counterterrorism official.
article_snippet.sent: The police subsequently arrested three Uzbeks and four Pakistanis who were part of the IMU cell that had carried out Weinstein's kidnapping.
article_snippet.sent: Members of the IMU cell that had carried out the Weinstein kidnapping told Pakistani interrogators that after Members of the IMU cell had kidnapped Weinstein they had kidnapped Weinstein moved Weinstein while Weinstein was tranquilized and semi-conscious among three safe houses in Lahore.
article_snippet.sent: IMU members then took Weinstein to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan, a semi-autonomous region along the border with Afghanistan where al Qaeda and other militant groups are headquartered.
article_snippet.sent: There Weinstein was given or, more likely, sold to al Qaeda, according to A senior Pakistani counterterrorism official.
article_snippet.sent: After Weinstein capture, the leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, demanded the end of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and the release of terrorists held in U.S. custody in exchange for Weinstein's freedom.
article_snippet.sent: On September 12, 2012, Weinstein appeared in a video produced by al Qaeda production arm in which Weinstein said that the Obama administration had shown "no interest in my case.