The family paid a “small amount” in 2012 to people who claimed to be guarding Weinstein, who was killed accidentally in January by a U.S. drone strike.
Adam Yahiya Gadahn, one of the two American al-Qaida members killed in the U.S. drone strikes disclosed Thursday by the White House, was himself of Jewish ancestry.
Warren Weinstein, a government contractor who had been held hostage by al-Qaida since 2011, and an Italian hostage were killed in a counterterrorism operation.