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Showing Original Post only (View all)168 children killed in drone strikes in Pakistan since start of campaign [View all]
This isn't even a new story, or the most recent count. The article is from August, 2011 ...
In an extensive analysis of open-source documents, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that 2,292 people had been killed by US missiles, including as many as 775 civilians.
The strikes, which began under President George W Bush but have since accelerated during the presidency of Barack Obama, are hated in Pakistan, where families live in fear of the bright specks that appear to hover in the sky overhead.
In just a single attack on a madrassah in 2006 up to 69 children lost their lives.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8695679/168-children-killed-in-drone-strikes-in-Pakistan-since-start-of-campaign.html
It just ... somehow ... seemed worth mentioning today.
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168 children killed in drone strikes in Pakistan since start of campaign [View all]
Justin_Beach
Dec 2012
OP
From bombing strikes ... by a foreign country ... who you aren't at war with?
Justin_Beach
Dec 2012
#4
Yes, in a day or 2 the feelings of disgust for the person who brought it up would have faded.
Quantess
Dec 2012
#20
This and the story about the attack on the Chinese school are popping up a lot. nt
CJCRANE
Dec 2012
#12