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cnn news 2015-04-28

CARL AZUZ, HOST: A tragic ending to a U.S. terrorism operation leads of cnn STUDENT NEWS today.

An American named Warren Weinstein and an Italian named Giovanni Lo Porto had been held hostage for years by the al Qaeda terrorist group. The U.S. government announced yesterday that an American operation in January accidentally killed the two hostages at an Al Qaeda compound in Pakistan.

Some U.S. officials said it was a U.S. drone strike that also killed an American who had become a leader in al Qaeda.

JIM SCIUTTO, cnn CORRESPONDENT: Here, they had intelligence indicating that this was an al Qaeda compound, but they did know that you had an American and an Italian hostage there.

This is the intense difficulty of doing this and we`ve seen risks taken by this administration. Some of those risks have worked out. The -- you`ll remember, with the bin Laden raid, famously, the president was told there was 50 percent certainty (ph) that all -- that bin Laden was there.

They went in, they found him, they killed him. And here`s one with just a -- just the -- the worst in -- in collateral damage, you know, that totally soulless term that is used in strikes like this. This is really a worst case scenario here.

And I think, you know, the president clearly felt the need to get it out and get it out in public.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and our fight against terrorists specifically, mistakes can occur.

As president and as commander-in-chief, I take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of Warren and Giovanni.

AZUZ: In response to the announcement, a legal director with the American Civil Liberties Union said, "The U.S. quite literally didn`t know who it was killing."

Warren Weinstein`s wife issued a statement saying her family was devastated by the news. She said they were hopeful that the U.S. and Pakistani governments would have done everything possible to secure Weinstein`s release and that no words do justice to the disappointment and heartbreak they`re going through.

She also said the ultimate responsibility was borne by those who took her husband captive.

The European Union is tripling the amount of money it spends on search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean. There`s a crisis there involving migrants trying to find asylum, refuge in a stable European country.

They`re set afloat on often rickety or overloaded boats. The BBC reports that this year alone, more than 35,000 people are believed to have traveled from Africa to Europe. More than 1,700 of them have died while trying.

Dangerous Migration

KARL PENHAUL, cnn CORRESPONDENT: So where are these people coming from?

Well, a lot of these migrants are coming from failed states, countries that simply are under nobody`s control, where there`s failed government, where there`s rampant corruption.

A lot of these people are coming also from parts of the world that are increasingly falling under the control of radical Islamist factions, places like Syria, Nigeria, mali. And a lot of people, as well, are simply fleeing from countries where there is absolute rampant poverty.

Why are they trying to get to Europe?

The answer there really is quite simple. The European Union is, for these migrants, the promised land.

What about the people who are bringing them here?

It is very much a question of supply and demand on the one hand, migrants desperate to make their way to Europe; and on the other hand, a number of unscrupulous characters ready to make a fast buck off trying to shuttle them from Point A to Point B. A lot of the migrants right now are being funneled there was Libya, another failed state, and then when the migrants arrive, they`re charging them thousands of dollars to put them in rust bucket vessels and set them afloat in the Mediterranean. And that is a business, to the human traffickers, that is worth millions of dollars.