article_snippet.sent: (CNN)On Thursday, President Barack Obama revealed that A U.S. drone strike had killed Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, two aid workers held hostage on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
article_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda had sought to trade the two for prisoners held by the United States and an end to drone strikes.
article_snippet.sent: Iranian proxies seized a number of Americans in Lebanon.
article_snippet.sent: Initially, the scheme worked, but no sooner had American officials delivered the last load of military equipment and The hostages set free, then kidnappers seized three more Americans.
article_snippet.sent: In March 1995, Iraqi security forces seized two American defense contractors who strayed into Iraq from Kuwait.
article_snippet.sent: Fifteen years before Obama traded alleged American deserter Bowe Bergdahl for five high-value Taliban and alleged al Qaeda operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, the Taliban arrested two Americans female missionaries.
article_snippet.sent: Fifteen years before Obama traded alleged American deserter Bowe Bergdahl for five high-value Taliban and alleged al Qaeda operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay detention -- and threatened death sentence -- came against the backdrop of Clinton-era attempts to negotiate with and perhaps even normalize relations with the Taliban; the Taliban, too, knew how holding Americans captive could even the playing field or even represent leverage for new concessions.
highlights_snippet.sent: A U.S. drone strike accidentally killed hostages Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto .
  