article_snippet.sent: Washington (CNN)In 2011, al Qaeda took Warren Weinstein hostage.
article_snippet.sent: Then, about a year later, his family paid money to his , said a Pakistani source who was in regular contact with the kidnappers.
article_snippet.sent: 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 Warren Weinstein, most prominently Dr. Aafia Siddiqui of Pakistan, a Pakistani source said.
article_snippet.sent: After ISIS beheaded American James Foley, Warren Weinstein's Afghan captors told a Pakistani source that "the Iraqis" were asking for American and that ISIS beheaded American James Foley, Weinstein's Afghan captors were preparing an "orange suit" for him -- a reference to the suits that victims have worn when ISIS militants murdered victims.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS beheaded American James Foley, Weinstein's Afghan captors had called a Pakistani source daily since sometime in 2012, and the last time a Pakistani source spoke with ISIS beheaded American James Foley, Weinstein's Afghan captors, in early April, ISIS beheaded American James Foley, Weinstein's Afghan captors said that Warren Weinstein was still alive.
article_snippet.sent: a Pakistani source declined to comment on the amount of money transferred to ISIS beheaded American James Foley, Weinstein's Afghan captors, leaving Could Weinstein.
article_snippet.sent: Warren Weinstein's wife, Elaine, and Warren Weinstein two daughters worried that drawing attention to Weinstein's wife, Elaine, and his two daughters loved one's plight -- especially media attention -- would make Weinstein, a government contractor working with USAID in Pakistan, a more valuable hostage to Warren Weinstein al Qaeda captors.
highlights_snippet.sent: About a year after al Qaeda took Warren Weinstein hostage, About a year after al Qaeda took Warren Weinstein hostage family paid a ransom, a Pakistani source says .
  