Civilian Casualties Plummet In Drone Strikes -- Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, and Jennifer Rowland, Special to CNN(CNN) -- Last week, a U.S. drone attack killed 19 suspected Taliban militants at a compound in North Waziristan on the Afghan border, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Dawn, a leading English-language Pakistani newspaper, later reported that the drone actually launched two separate strikes, the second of which occurred "when tribesmen were still carrying out rescue work," and killed an additional three people.
It was unclear whether the three were civilians or militants. If they were civilians, the incident would run counter to a marked decline in reports of civilian deaths in Pakistan caused by CIA drone strikes.
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Update: Decline in Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes -- Max Boot, Commentary
My Comment: Better technology. Better intelligence. Many high valued targets already eliminated. At a certain point you will run out of targets.
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