article_snippet.sent: Gunmen abducted " Elaine Weinstein in 2011 from " Elaine Weinstein home in Lahore, Parkistan.
article_snippet.sent: They posed as neighbors, offered food and then pistol-whipped the American aid worker and tied up his guards, his family said.
article_snippet.sent: Just a few months after " Elaine Weinstein's capture, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released a recording claiming the terror group was holding " Elaine Weinstein -- and demanding, among other things, that the United States end airstrikes in Pakistan.
article_snippet.sent: U.S. officials called for al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri release but repeatedly said the United States wouldn't bargain with al Qaeda.
article_snippet.sent: U.S. officials knew U.S. officials were targeting an al Qaeda compound in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region in the January counterterrorism operation, Obama said, but U.S. officials didn't know that the hostages were also there.
article_snippet.sent: There could be no starker contrast between these two selfless men and their al Qaeda captors," Obama said Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, al Qaeda boasted to the world that al Qaeda held Warren citing al Qaeda Jewish faith.
article_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda released a video of Weinstein on Christmas 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda appeared gaunt and said Al Qaeda was suffering.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gunmen abducted the USAID contractor from the USAID contractor home in Pakistan in 2011 .