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• The Washington Post reports President Obama has granted a CIA and U.S Military request to launch drone attacks even if it does not know the identities of those who will be killed. The so-called "signature" strike policy went into effect earlier this month. It is widely expected the number of U.S. drone strikes will see a radical jump with the new policy in place.
• The Bureau has identified credible reports of 168 children killed in seven years of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas. These children would account for 44% of the minimum figure of 385 civilians reported killed by the attacks.
• The number of civilians killed in US drone strikes were probably 40 percent higher than what the US was actually reporting. Between 2004 and 2011, they put the estimate of civilian deaths at a figure of 385, but added in the research that the toll could actually come close to tallying 775 casualties.
• At least 48 civilians have been killed in 27 U.S. strikes inside Yemen since 2009. Between 2006 and 2011, about 500 people were killed in Gaza and the Occupied Territories by Israeli drones.
• “The proliferation of drones not only in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, but the expansion of drone bases to places like Kuwait and Oman and Ethiopia, Seychelles, Australia, Turkey. This is a campaign that’s out of control in the hands of the CIA, the Joint Special Operations Command, both in secret, away from the eyes of the American public.”
Info Source: Democracy Now, RT and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Photo Credits: Messay Shoakena
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