American mouthpiece for Al Qaeda killed

April 24, 2015 02:28

The White House announced Thursday that Adam Gadahn, 36, was killed in January in a US government counter-terrorism operation.

Neither he nor Ahmed Farouq -- another US citizen and Al Qaeda operative who died in what the White House said was "likely a separate" operation -- was specifically targeted, according to the statement.

Warren Weinstein, a US citizen who was abducted by Al Qaeda in Pakistan in 2011, died along with another hostage, Italian Giovanni Lo Porto, in the attack that killed Farouq, according to the White House.

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