Practice Makes Perfect?: The Changing Civilian Toll of CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>U.S. officials have recently claimed that the CIA has sharply reduced the number of civilian casualties resulting from covert Predator and Reaper drone strikes in the Taliban-controlled agencies of Northwest Pakistan. Critics,...

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Published in:	Perspectives on Terrorism
Main Authors:	Avery Plaw, Matthew S. Fricker, Brian Glyn Williams
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Centre for Counter Terrorism 2011-12-01
Subjects:	Pakistan CIA Drones
Online Access:	http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/169

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