A drone attack on Oct. 11 put the total number of US strikes in Pakistan since June 2004 at 400, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) recently reported , 349 of which occurred during Barack Obama’s presidency. The Britain-based news outlet has long tracked the clandestine, CIA-led drone-strike regime in Pakistan, as well as in Yemen and Somalia. To tally the number of drone strikes and resultant deaths, TBIJ has had to gather data from leaked Pakistani government records, open source reports in a variety of languages, and researchers of both their own and human rights organizations in Pakistan,...
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