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Common Dreams reports:
The U.S. government's so-called "pinpoint"(NYT paywall) drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen are, in fact, leaving wide perimeters of death, as people on the Kill List are targeted--and even reported dead--again and again, according to a report published Monday by the UK-based charity Reprieve.
While drone attacks and their victims are kept secret by the U.S. military and government, Reprieve compiled public information available, most of it from media reports and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, to determine who actually died when the U.S. went after individuals in Yemen and Pakistan between November 2002 and November 2014.
The study examines the cases of 41 people included on a Kill List--a classified U.S. assassination program personally approved by President Obama with no judicial or public oversight. According to the report's findings, up to 1,147 unnamed people were killed in pursuit of these 41 known individuals.
Furthermore, each of these 41 men was reported killed multiple times.
"This raises a stark question," states the study. "With each failed attempt to assassinate a man on the Kill List, who filled the body bag in his place?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26 2014, @11:01PM
Seems like that's what you get when religion runs a country.
When THAT is the best we can hope for...
it's time for that old 'kill em all let god sort it out' plan.
Which does make us just as barbaric.
But at least it's a little more clean and efficient and we're not hiding our insanity behind 'because god told us to'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26 2014, @11:58PM
This is so true, praise Jesus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @12:56AM
It's an operation sponsored by the Christian "god" and the Jewish State of Israel.