Just one in fifty victims of ‘surgical’ US strikes in Pakistan are known militants

Flashback: Top Pakistani Politician Calls Drone Strikes “Insane, Immoral, War Crimes”

JEROME TAYLOR
London Independent
Sept 25, 2012

The expansive use of “double-tap” drone strikes is just one of a number of more recent phenomena in the covert war run by the US against violent Islamists that has been documented in a new report by legal experts at Stanford and New York University.

The product of nine months’ research and more than 130 interviews, it is one of the most exhaustive attempts by academics to understand – and evaluate – Washington’s drone wars. And their verdict is damning.

Throughout the 146-page report, which is released today, the authors condemn drone strikes for their ineffectiveness.

Despite assurances the attacks are “surgical”, researchers found barely 2 per cent of their victims are known militants and that the idea that the strikes make the world a safer place for the US is “ambiguous at best.”

Researchers added that traumatic effects of the strikes go far beyond fatalities, psychologically battering a population which lives under the daily threat of annihilation from the air, and ruining the local economy.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 8:19 am

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