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July 29, 2016

U.S. Gov't Pays Family of Italian Aid Worker Killed by Drone Strike
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And the U.S. government has reached an agreement with the family of
Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian aid worker killed in a CIA drone strike in
Pakistan last year. Lawyers for the family told The Intercept the
government had paid compensation, but did not disclose the amount. The
agreement comes more than a year after President Obama acknowledged and
apologized for the operation, which killed Lo Porto and a U.S.
government contractor named Warren Weinstein. Despite hundreds of hours
of surveillance, Obama said the United States had not known that the
hostages were present.


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