U.S. Admits Drones Have Killed 4 Americans Since 2009

A weaponized MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is shown in this undated photo. (General Atomics)

For First Time, U.S. Admits Drones Killed 4 Americans -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — One day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen.

The American responsibility for Mr. Awlaki’s death has been widely reported, but the administration had until now refused to confirm or deny it.

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