![]() ![]() The war since 2001 has killed around 104,000 people, the Brown University Watson Institute says more than 31,000 have been civilians. troops still remain in Afghanistan and the Taliban control more land than they have since 2001, when the U.S. Much of Obama's popularity stemmed from his campaign promises to close Guantanamo Bay and to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. drone strike estimates exceed 3,300 deaths drone strikes may amount to war crimes, report finds Over 90 per cent of suicide attacks worldwide are anti-American, they found. More than 95 per cent of suicide attacks are politically motivated, a response to foreign occupiers, according to University of Chicago's Project on Security and Terrorism, in which researchers examined each of more than 2,200 suicide attacks worldwide from 1982 to the present. launched its first known drone strike until 2016, the number increased to 510 suicide attacks. When Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's former foreign minister, was asked why anti-American sentiment in Pakistan was among the world's highest, Khar's answer was succinct: drones.īefore 9/11 there was one suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, Khar said in an interview. "This narrative is false." Drone attacks fuel anti-American sentiment safer by enabling 'targeted killing' of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts. The Guardian reported in 2014 that attempts to assassinate 41 men killed an estimated 1,147 people.Ī report by the Stanford and NYU School of Law says, "In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the U.S. ![]() Men aged 18 to 65 are viewed as legitimate targets, not civilians. U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria kill at least 56 civilians, rights group allegesĬonsidering that high-level targets are only two per cent of the total fatalities in drone strikes, with evidence of attacks on wedding parties and mourners at funerals instead of terrorists, the figures provided by the latter are more likely.Up to 116 civilians killed in drone, other air attacks, says White House.The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, for instance, estimates that in the same period, 256-633 civilians were killed in Pakistan alone. estimated that between January 2009 and December 2015, a total of 64 to 116 civilians were killed.īut civilian organizations all came up with much higher figures. Obama's administration released information on civilian casualties from drone strikes on Friday afternoon before the July 4 weekend (great timing) it didn't even specify which countries were included. ![]() According to the human rights organization Reprieve, drones have executed some 4,700 people without trial. Obama signed kill lists every Tuesday authorizing extrajudicial assassinations. Special Operations Command, in Tampa, Florida, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about counter-terrorism during his visit to MacDill Air Force Base, home to U.S. These wars have only led to the rise of ISIS and an increase in terrorist attacks that continue to spread. I have ordered tens of thousands of young Americans into combat.… I've ordered military action in seven countries." (The seven above, but there are eight if we also count the Philippines). "As commander-in-chief, I have not shied away from using force when necessary. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington, D.C.: He launched more drone strikes in his first year in office than Bush in both of his terms combined.ĭefending himself against allegations that he's a weakling, Obama the Nobel Peace Prize winner boasted about the number of countries he's bombed in a speech on Aug. has bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya with drones striking in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia - all Muslim majority countries.
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