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Thread: Report: US drone strikes killed innocents 90% of the time

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    Report: US drone strikes killed innocents 90% of the time

    A disturbing report (although, from an unknown source):

    Drone strikes conducted by the United States during a 5-month-long campaign in Afghanistan caused the deaths of unintended targets nearly nine out of ten times, leaked intelligence documents suggest.

    The apparent 10 percent success rate with regards to a specific span in America’s drone war is among the most damning revelations to surface so far as the result of a series of articles published by The Intercept on Thursday this week which rely on classified and confidential intelligence documents supplied by an unknown source.
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    Ryan Devereaux, a journalist with the website, reported that “During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets.” Nevertheless, the U.S. government considers many of these casualties to be enemy combatants, according to the the source, despite the strikes more often than not ending in the deaths of women, children and other civilians who become collateral damage of targeted attacks and are subsequently written off as adversaries killed during war, regardless of status.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...es-in-afghani/

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    Well, it would be imperative to know the source.

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    Drones often target marriage parties etc where the terrorists decide to come out of hiding and attend so the civilian casualties will be high. Unless one simply defines their extended families as collaborators. Which reminds me a bit of Viet Cong hunts in Vietnam. And the corresponding terror to the population, whether they are collaborators or simply innocents. An ugly war. In this case with no US casualties which means it doesn't get much negative press.

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