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[/FONT]The Obama administration's drone attacks have not just targeted Al Qaeda leaders, but a wide variety of groups and individuals in Pakistan, according to classified intelligence documents obtained by McClatchy's Jonathan Landay.
[FONT=Georgia, times new roman, times, serif]"At least 265 of up to 482 people who the U.S. intelligence reports estimated the CIA killed during a 12-month period ending in September 2011 were not senior al Qaida leaders but instead were 'assessed' as Afghan, Pakistani and unknown extremists," Landay writes in the story, published today.
[FONT=Georgia, times new roman, times, serif]Read more @:[/FONT]Classified Report Shows America's Drones Aren't Just Killing Al Qaeda Members - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
[FONT=Georgia, times new roman, times, serif]An "[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, times new roman, times, serif]unknown[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, times new roman, times, serif] extremist"? WTF... Looks like yet again we have been lied to on the "drone war" [/FONT]