• American hostage Warren Weinstein is shown in this image captured from an undated video courtesy of Intelcenter. Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto, who had been held hostage by al-Qaida in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, were killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in January, the White House said on April 23. A report Wednesday indicated the FBI facilitated in a 2012 ransom payment to secre Weinstein's release, contrary to the U.S. no-ransom policy. | REUTERS
    American hostage Warren Weinstein is shown in this image captured from an undated video courtesy of Intelcenter. Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto, who had been held hostage by al-Qaida in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, were killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in January, the White House said on April 23. A report Wednesday indicated the FBI facilitated in a 2012 ransom payment to secre Weinstein's release, contrary to the U.S. no-ransom policy. | REUTERS

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2012 helped facilitate a ransom payment from the family of American hostage Warren Weinstein to al-Qaida in an unsuccessful attempt to get him released, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.

Weinstein was accidentally killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in January, the White House announced last week. U.S. policy prohibits paying ransoms for hostages.

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