Showing posts with label Predator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Predator. Show all posts

Sunday, November 14, 2010

CIA Predator Attacks in Pakistan More Effective Than Media Reports

"Widely-cited reports of the inaccuracy and disproportionality of civilian to militant deaths in the CIA’s ongoing Predator drone campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan are grossly misleading. The most detailed database compiled to date, assembled by the authors of this article, indicates (among other important findings) that the strikes have not only been impressively accurate, but have achieved and maintained a greater proportionality than either ground operations in the area or targeting campaigns elsewhere."
Read the rest of the article at "New Light on the Accuracy of the CIA's Predator Drone Campaign in Pakistan", The Jamestown Foundation, November 2010.