In what is one of the most damning pieces of info from this week’s major leak on President Obama’s drone campaigns, is that innocent civilians die in 9 out of 10 strikes.
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The stat comes from a 5 month period of drone strikes in Afghanistan. The journalistRyan Devereaux, from The Intercept, which published the leak, said:
“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.”
The founding editor Glenn Greenwald tweeted Thursday: “These docs illustrate what a video game, drained of all humanity, these drone assassinations have become.”
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From the Washington Times:
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.
Read more at the Washington Times
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