LEAKED: High Civilian Death Toll from CIA DRONE STRIKES

[presence]

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/22/leak...drone_strikes/

A secret document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals for the first time the Pakistan government’s internal assessment of dozens of drone strikes, and shows scores of civilian casualties.


The United States has consistently claimed only a tiny number of non-combatants have been killed in drone attacks in Pakistan – despite research by the Bureau and others suggesting that over 400 civilians may have died in the nine-year campaign.


The internal document shows Pakistani officials too found that CIA drone strikes were killing a significant number of civilians – and have been aware of those deaths for many years.


Of 746 people listed as killed in the drone strikes outlined in the document, at least 147 of the dead are clearly stated to be civilian victims, 94 of those are said to be children.

[Origanalist]

I don't think I believe those numbers, when you're bombing weddings and funerals the numbers are going to be higher. Add in their definition of " non-combatant"......

[enhanced_deficit]

I saw this couple of days ago, these are managed leaks by gov agencies on neecons payroll and grossly underestimate the numbers. They tried to make it unverifiable b y missing all data from 2009 an then some.
Actual numbers have been reported by few other less corrupted bodies and many times of these. There is reason neecons plants are pretending to not shake from fear of future war crimes prosecutions after pupms impending collapse.

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