He was a boy who hadn't seen his father in two years

[Catherina]

64. Whose innocents? Only the invading soldiers with lethal weapons from our side?

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik reported last year that there had been 336 drone attacks on Pakistan alone over the previous eight years, claiming 2,300 victims. Some 80 percent of those killed were innocent civilians.


US Research admits this. The corporate media admits this. Everyone except the apologists and the warriors working in the Department of Predatory Drones admits this. There's no way anyone who's looked into this can make the claim that drones save lives with a straight face, unless the other victims' lives don't count.

(CNN) -- ...

The study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law calls for a re-evaluation of the practice, saying the number of "high-level" targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- about 2%.

The report accuses Washington of misrepresenting drone strikes as "a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the U.S. safer," saying that in reality, "there is significant evidence that U.S. drone strikes have injured and killed civilians."

It also casts doubts on Washington's claims that drone strikes produce zero to few civilian casualties and alleges that the United States makes "efforts to shield the drone program from democratic accountability."

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drone strikes go much further than simply killing innocent civilians. An entire region is being terrorized by the constant threat of death from the skies," said Reprieve's director, Clive Stafford Smith.

"Their way of life is collapsing: kids are too terrified to go to school, adults are afraid to attend weddings, funerals, business meetings, or anything that involves gathering in groups. Yet there is no end in sight, and nowhere the ordinary men, women and children of North West Pakistan can go to feel safe."

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/asia/pakistan-us-drone-strikes

The warmakers are lying again. What a surprise.