White House considering cross-agency team to handle hostage situations

[WorldNews]

The White House is considering assembling a cross-agency team to handle situations involving American hostages being held abroad, spokesman Josh Earnest said on Friday. The idea is being floated in the midst of a review of the U.S policy toward hostages, which was criticized on Thursday by the family of Warren Weinstein, the American hostage killed in a U.S. strike while being held by al Qaeda on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

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