Drone Attacks in Pakistan: Statistics

Drone attacks in Pakistan 1
Drone attacks in Pakistan

The United States government, led by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division, has made a
series of attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan since 2004 using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles).[1] Under the
George W. Bush administration, these controversial attacks were called a part of the US' "War on Terrorism" and
sought to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who were thought to have found a safe haven in Pakistan.[1]
Most of these attacks are on targets in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in
Northwest Pakistan.
These strikes are mostly carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operated remotely from Creech Air Force
Base and have continued under the Presidency of Barack Obama.[2] [3] Generally the UAVs used are MQ-1 Predator
and more recently MQ-9 Reaper firing AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. The drones have become a weapon of choice for
the United States in the fight against al-Qaeda.[4] Some media refer to the series of attacks as a "drone war".[5] [6]
Pakistan's government publicly condemns these attacks but has secretly shared intelligence with Americans[7] and
also allegedly allowed the drones to operate from Shamsi airfield in Pakistan.[8]
The number of civilian deaths is largely speculative. The Long War Journal reports that the CIA is skewing the
numbers by classifying drivers, bodyguards and such as combatants while the Brookings Institution suggests that
drone strikes may kill "10 or so civilians" for every militant killed.[9] [10]
Statistics
US Drone Strike Statistics[]

Year Number of Drone Strikes Number Killed (Min) Number Killed (Max)
2004 1 4 5
2005 2 6 7
2006 2 23 23
2007 4 56 77
2008 33 273 313
2009 53 368 724
2010 118 607 993
2011 11 46 62
Total 224 1,383 2,204

Timeline
2004–2007
• June 18, 2004: 5 including Nek Muhammad Wazir killed in a strike near Wana, South Waziristan.[11]
• May 14, 2005: 2 killed including Haitham al-Yemeni in a strike near the Afghan border in North Waziristan.[12]
• November 30, 2005: Al-Qaeda's 3rd in command, Abu Hamza Rabia killed in an attack by CIA drones in
Asoray, near Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan along with 4 other militants.[13]
• January 13, 2006: Damadola airstrike kills 18 civilians in Bajaur area but misses Ayman al-Zawahri.
• October 30, 2006 Chenagai airstrike allegedly aimed at Ayman al-Zawahri destroys a madrassa in Bajaur area
and kills 70-80 civilians.
• January 16, 2007: Up to 30 Taliban killed in a drone strike in Salamat Keley, Zamazola, South Waziristan.[14]
• April 26, 2007: 4 killed in the village of Saidgi in North Waziristan[15]
• June 19, 2007: 30 killed in the village of Mami Rogha in North Waziristan[16]
• November 2, 2007: 5 killed in an attack on a madrasah in North Waziristan[17]
2008
• January 29, 2008: Abu Laith al-Libi killed in a strike in North Waziristan along with 11 other militants.[18] [19]
• February 27, 2008: 12 people killed in a strike near Kalosha village in South Waziristan.[20]
• March 18, 2008: 16 killed in a strike in South Waziristan[21]
• May 14, 2008: 12 including Abu Sulayman Al-Jazairi killed near village of Damadola, Bajaur.[22] [23]
• June 14, 2008: US drones fired three missiles at a potential hideout of TTP leader Meshud, killing one person.[24]
• July 28, 2008: Midhat Mursi and 5 other Al-Qaeda operatives killed in South Waziristan.[19]
• August 12, 2008: Nine killed in four strikes in the area near Angore Adda in South Waziristan during a meeting
of militants.[25]
• August 13, 2008: US drone strike on a compound run by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar killed Taliban commander Abdul
Rehman, along with Islam Wazir, three Turkmen, and several Arab fighters. Up to 25 militants were killed in this
strike.[26]
• August 20, 2008: US drones fire two missiles that hit a compound in South Waziristan, killing 8 militants.[27]
• August 30, 2008: Missile strike on Al-Qaeda training camp in South Waziristan kills two militants carrying
Canadian passports.[28]
• August 31, 2008: US drones destroy a house in Tappi village in Miranshah, killing 6 people and injuring 8
including 1 woman and 1 child.[29]
• September 4, 2008: US drones fired missiles at a house in Char Khel in North Waziristan killing 4 people.[30]
• September 5, 2008: US drones fire three missiles, destroying a house which was potentially hosting Arab foreign
fighters, killing at least six.[31]
• September 8, 2008: 23 killed in Daande Darpkhel airstrike, near Miranshah, North Waziristan.
• September 12, 2008: The Miranshah airstrike kills 12 people including three women and two children.
• September 17, 2008: US drone attack in Baghar Cheena region of South Waziristan kills 5 militants including Al
Qaeda operative Abu Ubaydah al Tunisi.[32]
• September 30, 2008: Six killed in a strike near Mir Ali, North Waziristan.[33]
• October 3, 2008: Two drone attacks hours apart in Datta Khel region of North Waziristan kills 21 militants
including 16 foreigners.[34]
• October 9, 2008: US drone strike killed at least 6 militants including 3 Arabs in Tappi village near Miranshah,
North Waziristan.[35]
• October 11, 2008: US drone strike at a militant compound in North Waziristan kills 5 people and wounds 2
others.[36]
• October 16, 2008: Senior Al-Qaeda leader Khalid Habib killed in a strike near Taparghai, South Waziristan,
along with five other Al Qaeda or Taliban members.[37] [38]
• October 22, 2008: 4 killed in a village near Miranshah by missiles fired from suspected US drone.[39]
• October 26, 2008: 20 killed in a strike in South Waziristan.[40]
• October 31, 2008: Two missiles fired by US drones kills 7 in Wana, South Waziristan.[41]
• October 31, 2008: 20 killed including Al-Qaeda operative Abu Akash and Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim
(alias Abu Jihad al-Masri) after 4 missiles hit Waziristan.[19] [42]
• November 7, 2008: US drones fire four missiles, killing up to 14 militants in Kumsham, North Waziristan.[43]
• November 14, 2008: 12 killed in a strike near Miranshah.[44]
• November 19, 2008: Abdullah Azam al-Saudi and 4 other militants are killed in Bannu district.[19]
• November 22, 2008: British Al-Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf and 4 others including Abu Zubair al-Masri killed
in a strike in North Waziristan.[19] [45]
• November 29, 2008: US drone strike on Miranshah, North Waziristan kills 3 people.[46]
• December 11, 2008: US drone strike in Azam Warzak, South Waziristan, kills 7 militants.[47]
• December 15, 2008: US drone strike in Tapi Tool region near Miram Shah, North Waziristan kills 2.[48]
• December 22, 2008: At least 8 killed in South Waziristan by suspected US drone strike.[49]
2009
January to June
• January 1, 2009: 2 senior al-Qaeda

leaders Usama al-Kini and Sheikh
Ahmed Salim Swedan killed in a
missile strike by U.S. drones.[19] [50]
• January 2, 2009: US drone strike
in Ladha, South Waziristan kills 4
people.[51]
An MQ-9 Reaper taking off in Afghanistan.
• January 23, 2009: In the first
attacks since Barack Obama became
U.S. president, at least 14 killed in Waziristan in 2 separate attacks by 5 missiles fired from drones.[52]
• February 14, 2009: More than 30 killed when two missiles are launched by drones near town of Makeen in
South Waziristan.[53]
• February 16, 2009: Strike in Kurram Valley kills 30, reportedly at a Taliban training camp for fighters preparing
to combat coalition forces in Afghanistan.[28] [54]
• March 1, 2009: Strike in Sararogha village in South Waziristan kills 7 people.[55]
• March 7, 2009: Taliban militants shot down one of the two UAVs over a village in South Waziristan.[56]
• March 12, 2009: 24 killed in attack in Berju in Kurram Agency.[57]
• March 15, 2009 4 killed in Jani Khel in Bannu district in North-West Frontier Province.[58]
• March 25, 2009: 7 killed in attacks on 2 vehicles by two missiles in Makin area of South Waziristan at
6:30pm.[59]
• March 26, 2009: 4 killed in Essokhel area in North Waziristan.[60]
• April 1, 2009: 14 killed in Orakzai Agency tribal area.[61] [62]
• April 4, 2009: 13 killed in North Waziristan.[63]
• April 8, 2009: 4 killed in attack on a vehicle in Gangi Khel in South Waziristan.[64]
• April 19, 2009: At least 3 killed and 5 injured in an attack in South Waziristan[65]
• April 29, 2009: US drone strike in Kanni Garam village in South Waziristan kills 6 people.[66]
• May 9, 2009: US drone strike in Sararogha in South Waziristan kills 6 people.[67]
• May 12, 2009: US drone strike in Sra Khawra village in South Waziristan kills 8 people.[68]
• May 16, 2009: US drone strike in village of Sarkai Naki in North Waziristan kills 25 people.[69]
• June 14, 2009: US drone strike on a vehicle in South Waziristan kills 5 people.[70]
• June 18, 2009: Two US drone strikes in Shahalam village in South Waziristan kills at least 13 people.[71] [72]
• June 23, 2009: US drone strike in Neej Narai in South Waziristan kills at least 8 people.[73] [74]
• June 23, 2009: Makeen airstrike kills at least 80 but misses Baitullah Mehsud in the town of Makeen, many of
which were attending the funerals of people killed in the air strikes earlier in the day.[75] [76] [77]
July to December
• July 3, 2009: US Drone kills 17 people and injures a further 27.[78]
• July 7, 2009: US drone strike in Zangarha in South Waziristan kills at least 12 people.[79]
• July 8, 2009: US drone strike on a hideout in Karwan Manza area and on a vehicle convoy in South Waziristan
kills at least 50 people.[80]
• July 10, 2009: US drones take out a Taliban communication center killing between 5–8 militants in Painda Khel,
South Waziristan.[81]
• July 17, 2009: US drone strike on a house in North Waziristan kills 4 people.[82]
• August 5, 2009: US drone strike in South Waziristan killed 12, including Baitullah Mehsud, his wife, and his
wife's parents.[83] [84] The kill was confirmed after weeks of uncertainty over their fate.[85] [86] [87] [88] [89]
• August 11, 2009: US drone strike in Ladda village, South Waziristan, kills 10.[90]
• August 21, 2009: US drone strike on the village of Darpa Kheil, North Waziristan, reportedly targeting
Sirajuddin Haqqani kills at least 21 people.[91] [92] [93]
• August 27, 2009: US drone missile strike on the Tapar Ghai area in the Kanigram (Kanigoram) district in South
Waziristan kills at 8 people.[94] [95] One of the dead was reportedly Tohir Yo‘ldosh (Tahir Yuldash), leader of the
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.[96] [97]
• September 8, 2009: US drone fired missiles kill 10 in North Waziristan.[98] The attack may have killed al Qaeda
leaders Ilyas Kashmiri and Mustafa al Jaziri as well as three Punjabi militants and two or three local Taliban
fighters.[99]
• September 14, 2009: US drone fired missile kills four people in a car 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Mir Ali in North
Waziristan.[100]
• September 24, 2009: US drone fired missile kills up to 12 people in the village of Dande Darpa Khel near Mir
Ali.[101]
• September 29, 2009: Two missile attacks take place. In the first, a drone attack reportedly killed six Taliban,
including two Uzbek fighters and Taliban commander Irfan Mehsud, in a compound in Sararogha village, South
Waziristan. In the second, a missile killed seven insurgents in a house in Dandey Darpakhel village, North
Waziristan.[102] [103]
• September 30, 2009: US drones fire missiles at a Taliban compound and vehicle killing 8 in Novak, North
Waziristan.[104]
• October 15, 2009: US drone missile killed at least four people in North Waziristan.[105]
• October 21, 2009: Alleged US drone missile killed two or three alleged militants in Spalaga, North Waziristan in
territory controlled by Hafiz Gul Bahadur.[106] [107] One of those killed was reportedly Abu Ayyub al-Masri (not
the same as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader), an explosives expert for Al Qaeda and a "Tier 1"
target of US counterterrorism operations.[108]
• October 24, 2009: Alleged US drone strike killed 27, in Damadolla , inside Bajaur tribal agency.[109] [110] The 27
victims were reportedly a mix of Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives engaged in a planning and strategy meeting.
The dead apparently included 11 "foreigners". One of those reported killed was Faqir Mohammed's nephew,
Zahid and another was Mohammed's unnamed son-in-law. The meeting was apparently being held to decide on
whether to reinforce South Wazaristan against Pakistani forces, which Mohammed advocates, or exploit recent
successes in the Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, which Al Qaeda wishes to do.[111]
• November 5, 2009: 2 killed in Miranshah town in North Waziristan.[112]
• November 18, 2009: 4 killed and 5 injured in Shanakhora village of North Waziristan, 12 miles (19 km) south of
Miranshah.[113] [114]
• November 20, 2009: 8 killed in the Machikhel area near the town of Mir Ali.[115]
• December 8, 2009: 3 killed in a car near Miranshah in North Waziristan, reportedly including 2 Al Qaeda
members.[38] [116] Senior Al qaeda planner Saleh al-Somali, from Somalia, is believed killed in this strike.[117]
• December 9, 2009: Six killed in Tanga, Ladha, South Waziristan, reportedly consisting of four Al Qaeda and two
Taliban members.[38]
• December 17, 2009: 17 killed in 2 separate attacks in North Waziristan in an area controlled by Hafiz Gul
Bahadur. In the first attack, two missiles hit a car near Dosali, killing two. In the second attack, 10 missiles fired
by five drones hit two compounds in Ambarshaga, killing 15 people. Unnamed sources stated that seven of the
dead were "foreigners."[118] [119]
• December 18, 2009: 3 killed in an attack in Dattakhel region in North Waziristan.[120]
• December 26, 2009: 13 killed in an attack in Saidgai village in North Waziristan[121]
• December 30, 2009: A suicide bomber killed at least six CIA officers and seriously injured six others at Forward
Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency to coordinate drone
attacks in Pakistan. The Haqqani network claimed responsibility.[122]
• December 31, 2009: Four killed in an attack in Machikhel village in North Waziristan. According to The Frontier
Post, senior Taliban leader and strong Haqqani ally Haji Omar Khan, brother of Arif Khan, was killed in the
strike along with the son of local tribal leader Karim Khan.[122] [123]
In January 2010, al Qaeda in Pakistan announced that Lashkar al-Zil leader Abdullah Said al Libi was killed in a
drone missile strike. Neither al Qaeda nor the US has revealed the date of the attack which killed Libi, but it appears
to have taken place in December 2009.[124]
2010
January to March
• January 1, 2010: Missile strike on a

vehicle near Ghundikala village in North
Waziristan kills 3.[125] [126]
• January 3, 2010: 5 people including 3
Arabs killed in an attack on Mosakki
village in North Waziristan.[126] [127]
• January 6, 2010: 2 separate missile
strikes one hour apart kill approximately
35 people in Sanzalai village, North
Waziristan.[126] [128] [129]
• January 8, 2010: Missile strike in Tappi
village in North Waziristan killed 5 MQ-1L Predator UAV armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missile
people. It is alleged that all the militants
killed were local and were attached to Taliban Commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.[126] [130]
• January 9, 2010: 4 killed and three injured when 2 missiles are fired on a compound in village Ismail Khan in
North Waziristan, territory of the Haqqani network.[131] Mahmoud Mahdi Zeidan, bodyguard for al Qaeda leader
Sayeed al-Masri, was reported killed in either the January 8 or 9 airstrike.[132] Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim who was
allegedly involved in hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986 was also reported killed in this strike.[126] [133]
• January 13, 2010: Missile strike in Pasalkot village in a compound formerly used as a religious school in North
Waziristan killed 15 people among them 3 militant commanders.[134] The apparent target of the strike was,
Hakimullah Mehsud, who reportedly left the compound before the attack occurred.[135]
• January 15, 2010: Missile strike in Zannini village near Mir Ali in North Waziristan kills up to 15 people,
probably including Abdul Basit Usman, an al-Qaeda terrorist.[126] [136]
• January 15, 2010: Second missile strike of the day kills 6 in Bichi village in North Waziristan.[136]
• January 17, 2010: Missile strike in Shaktoi area of South Waziristan kills at least 20 people.[137] The leader of
the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud sustained injuries in this attack. It was initially believed he died but it
was later learned that he survived.[138]
• January 19, 2010: Two missiles fired at a compound and vehicle in Booya village of Datakhel sub-division,
35 km west of Miranshah, in North Waziristan kills 9 people.[126] [139]
• January 29, 2010: 15 killed when drones fire 3 missiles on a compound belonging to Haqqani network in
Muhammad Khel town in North Waziristan.[126] [140] [141] [142]
• February 2, 2010: Up to 8 US drones fired missiles at 4 different villages of North Waziristan killing at least 29
people.[143] [144]
• February 14, 2010: 5 killed in a strike near Mir Ali in North Waziristan.[145]
• February 15, 2010: Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, leader of the Turkistani Islamic Party, is killed by a drone missile
strike in North Waziristan.[146]
• February 17, 2010: Three militants killed by a missile strike near Tapi, Miramshah, North Waziristan. One of
those killed was reportedly Sheikh Mansoor, a commander in the Lashkar al Zil.[147]
• February 18, 2010: 4 killed in a strike in Northwest Waziristan including Mohammed Haqqani, the brother of
Afghan Taliban commander Siraj who leads the Haqqani network.[148] [149] The missiles hit a vehicle belonging
to Siraj that Mohammed was riding in, but Siraj was not in the vehicle at the time.[150] Mohammed and Siraj were
reportedly attending the funeral of Sheikh Mansoor, who had been killed by a drone strike the day before.[147]
[148] [149]
• February 24, 2010: Missiles fired by a US drone killed at least 13 militants at a compound and at a vehicle in the
Dargah Mandi area of North Waziristan. Among the dead include Bahadar Mansoor, head of Badar Mansoor
group, and Rana Afzal, the man behind the FIA HQ bombing in Lahore. Mohammed Qari Zafar, the head of
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the person responsible for the 2002 and 2006 bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi
was thought to be killed in this Drone strike but it was later proved that he survived the attack.[151] [152] [153] [154]
He died on June 14, 2010 when he accidentally touched some explosives which set them off killing him in the
ensuing explosion in a guesthouse he was staying in North Waziristan.[155]
• March 8, 2010: Three missiles fired by US drone aircraft killed five militants and wounded three in
Miranshah.[156] It is alleged that Hussein al-Yemeni (also called Sadam Hussein Al Hussami), an Al Qaeda
terrorist who planned the Camp Chapman attack died in this strike.[157]
• March 10, 2010: Missiles fired from drones struck a compound and three vehicles in the village of Mizar
Madakhel in North Waziristan. The attack killed at least 12 and as many as 21 militants. Five drones reportedly
attacked in two waves. First, four missiles struck and demolished the compound. After local militants cordoned
off the area and began recovering bodies, a second volley of missiles struck. Hafiz Gul Bahadar, a local Taliban
leader and chief of the North Waziristan Shura, may have been killed in the strike.[158] [159]
• March 16, 2010: Eight to ten militants were killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan's Datakhel area.[160]
[161]
The militants were reportedly al Qaeda fighters, mainly Afghan, but included two officials from Syria and
Egypt.[162]
• March 17, 2010: Two US Drone strikes killed 9 militants. In the first attack, the drones fired four missiles at a
vehicle and a militant hide-out in Miranshah, killing six militants. About 50 minutes later, drones fired 3 missiles
at a vehicle in Madakhel, killing 3 militants.[163]
• March 21, 2010: US drone fires two missiles in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan killing at least eight
people and injuring several others.[164]
• March 23, 2010: US drones fired two missiles on a militant vehicle parked outside a compound in the suburbs of
Miranshah in North Waziristan. At least six militants were killed and three others were wounded.[165]
• March 27, 2010: Drone strike in Mir Ali in North Waziristan kills 4 militants.[166]
• March 30, 2010: US drone fired three missiles, destroying a compound owned by Zamir Khan, a local tribesman,
and used by militants in the city of Tapi in North Waziristan killing six militants.[167]
April to June
• April 12, 2010: 2 missiles fired by a US drone kill 5 in North Waziristan.[168]
• April 14, 2010: US drone strike targeting a vehicle killed up to 4 people and injuring 4 others in Anbarshaga area
of North Waziristan. All of the dead and injured were Arab militants.[169] [170]
• April 16, 2010: US drones fired at least 7 missiles which hit two vehicles and a house in the Toolkhel area near
Miramshah in North Waziristan killing 6 people and injuring 5 others.[171]
• April 24, 2010: US drones kill 7 militants in North Waziristan in the village of Marsi Khel near Miramshah.[172]
• April 26, 2010: Three missiles from drones strike a compound in the Khushali Toorkhel area, about 25 km east of
Miranshah, North Waziristan, killing four or five. A Pakistani security official stated that those killed were
militant followers of local rebel commander Haleem Khan. The official added that Khan has ties to regional
Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur.[173] [174]
• May 3, 2010: 4 militants are killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan [175]
• May 9, 2010: 10 militants are killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan [176] [177]
• May 11, 2010: At least 24 militants are killed in two separate US drone strikes in which the US fired up to 18
missiles. The first strike occurred when missiles struck cars, homes and tents in the Doga area of North
Waziristan killing up to 14 militants. Hours later another pair of missiles hit a compound in the Gorwek area of
North Waziristan killing another 10 suspected insurgents, including the brother of a reputed Taliban commander,
Maulvi Kalam.[178] [179]
• May 15, 2010: At least 15 killed in Khyber Agency in the first such strike in this area.[180] [181]
• May 21, 2010: US drones fired two missiles on a compound used by Afghan warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur and
killed 10 people in Mohammad Khel, North Waziristan. Saeed al-Masri, the current 3rd in command of Al-Qaeda
was killed in this strike along with his wife and 3 children.[182] [183] Other dead in this strike include two foreign
militants, one of whom was reportedly Filipino. Five women and two children were reported injured.[184]
• May 28, 2010: US drone strike killed 11 militants and wounded three others in the Nazai Narai area of South
Waziristan.[185]
• June 10, 2010: US drone strike killed 3 people in North Waziristan.[186]
• June 11, 2010: US drones fired 6 missiles on a housing compound near Miran Shah at the Afghan-Pakistan
border, killing 15 alleged militants.[187]
• June 19, 2010: US drone fired a missile striking a house in Haider Khel village near North Waziristan's Mir Ali
town killing 16 militants.[188] Al Qaeda leader Abu Ahmed Tarkash was among the dead.[189] [190]
• June 26, 2010:A US missile strike killed 7 militants in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border. The
missile, fired by an unmanned drone, destroyed a house near Mir Ali in North Waziristan. One of the dead men
was a foreigner.[191]
• June 27, 2010: A drone strike in North Waziristan killed 5 militants.[192]
• June 29, 2010: US drone fired two missiles hitting a house near in Wana, South Waziristan killing at least 8
militants including Hamza al-Jufi an Egyptian militant belonging to Al Qaeda.[193] [194]
July to September
• July 15, 2010: A drone strike in North Waziristan killed 14 suspected militants in a region under the control of
Hafiz Gul Bahadar.[195] [196] [197]
• July 24, 2010: US drones fired two missiles at a militant compound in Nazai Narai area of South Waziristan
killing 16 militants.[198]
• July 25, 2010: US drones fired two missiles and hit a double-cabin pickup carrying militants in Shaktoi village in
South Waziristan. Taliban sources said 14 militants were killed and two others were injured in the attack. The
militants belonged to the Hakimullah Mehsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).[199]
• July 25, 2010: US drones launched their second strike of the day when two missiles hit a house where some
militants were having dinner in Landikhel village of Srarogha Tehsil in South Waziristan. Four militants that
belonged to TTP were killed and five others sustained injuries.[199]
• July 25, 2010: US drones launched their unprecedented third strike on the same day when they fired two missiles
at a house in Taipi village near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, killing 7 suspected militants.[200]
• August 14, 2010: US drone fired three missiles at a compound in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, killing at least 13
militants including Taliban commander, Amir Moaviya.[201] [202]
• August 21, 2010: A US drone strike near Miran Shah, North Waziristan, kills 6 militants.[203]
• August 23, 2010: Missiles fired from US drones in North Waziristan kill 13 militants and seven civilians. Four
women and three children are among the dead.[204] [205]
• August 27, 2010: Missiles fired from US drones in the Kurram Agency hit 2 vehicle killing 5 suspected militants,
the first such reported drone strike in the Kurram Agency.[206]
• September 3, 2010: 2 separate drone strikes kill 12–15 suspected militants in North Waziristan.[207] The first
strike was near Miramshah, killing six "local" militants according to Dawn. The second strike was near Data
Khel, targeting the home of Gul Adam, and killed nine militants. SAMAA TV reported that a local Taliban
commander named Inayatullah was reportedly killed in the strike.[208] [209]
• September 4, 2010: US drones struck a compound in Datta Khel village in North Waziristan district killed eight
militants including three foreign fighters.[210]
• September 6, 2010: A US drone strike in North Waziristan kills 6 suspected militants.[211]
• September 8, 2010: US drones launch four separate attacks in a space of 24 hours. According to anonymous
Pakistani intelligence officials: In the first attack, a house owned by Maulvi Azizullah, a member of the Haqqani
network, in Dande Darpa Khel near Miranshah was struck killing at least 6 militants.[212] In the second attack,
drones fired missiles striking a car traveling a few miles from the border, killing four people associated with the
Haqqani network. In the third attack, another house near the Miranshah area was struck killing another 4
militants.[213] A few hours later US drones launched their fourth attack striking a compound outside Miranshah
killing at least 6 militants and wounding 5 others. All told 24 militants have been killed in these 4 strikes.[214]
• September 11, 2010: A US drone strike on the house of Hafiz Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan kills 5 suspected
militants.[215]
• September 13, 2010: A US drone fires two missiles at a house in Shawal, North Waziristan, reportedly killing 13
militants.[216] [217]
• September 14, 2010: A US drone strike kills 12 militants in Dargah Mandi near Miran Shah, North Waziristan.
The numerous strikes in September are reportedly part of a campaign against the Haqqqni Network. The drone
strikes in Pakistan against the network are meant to support concurrent special operations raids against the
network's fighters in Afghanistan.[218] [219]
• September 15, 2010: In an ongoing unprecedented drone offensive, a drone strike kills 4 militants in North
Waziristan, including Saifullah Haqqani, first cousin of Haqqani Network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.[220]
• September 16, 2010: US drones fired missiles at a house in Datakhel area, killing six militants.[221]
• September 19, 2010: US drones fire missiles at a house in Datta Khel, North Waziristan killing 5 militants.[222]
• September 20, 2010: US drones launch two strikes killing a total of 12 militants in North Waziristan, the first
volley hit a vehicle in the Datakhel region killing 5, the second hit a house in Miran Shah killing 7.[223] [224]
• September 21, 2010: A US drone strike kills 16 militants in the South-North Waziristan border region, including
Taliban commander Mullah Shamsullah.[225]
• September 25, 2010: A US drone fired three missiles hitting a vehicle killing 4 militants in Datta Khel village of
North Waziristan. Among the dead was Sheikh Fateh Al Misri, Al-Qaeda's new 3rd in command.[226] [227] Al
Misri was planning a major terrorist attack in London, Paris or Berlin by recruiting British Muslims who would
then go on a shooting rampage throughout these cities similar to what transpired in Mumbai in November 2008.
The plan was thought to be its final stages and the stepped up drone campaign in September was done to disrupt
and eliminate the key planners of this terrorist attack.[228]
• September 26, 2010: US drones launch two strikes against militants killing 7. In the first strike, drone fired three
missiles at a house in Lwara Mandi village in Datta Khel, killing 3 militants. Minutes later, a drone fired two
missiles at a vehicle in the same area, killing 4 militants.[229]
• September 27, 2010: A US drone strike in Miran Shah, North Waziristan, kills 6 militants.[230]
• September 28, 2010: US drone fired a missile at a compound Zeba village, west of Wana, South Waziristan
killing 4 militants including Al-Qaeda's Sheikh Fateh al-Misri.[231]
October to December
• October 2, 2010: US drones launch two separate strikes killing 17 militants. In the first attack drones fired two
missile at a house in Datta Khel killing 9 militants including 4 foreigners. The dead were members of the Badar
Mansur group, which is closely affiliated with Al Qaeda. Four hours later another strike occurred in the same area
on a convoy of vehicles and a house killing another 8 militants.[232]
• October 4, 2010: US drones strike a mosque in Mirali, North Waziristan, reportedly killing 8 militants of German
nationality.[233]
• October 6, 2010: Two US drone strikes by Miran Shah, North Waziristan, kill a total of 11 militants.[234]
• October 7, 2010: A US drone strike on a compound in North Waziristan kills 5 militants, included one of the Al
Qaeda leaders Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.[235] [236]
• October 8, 2010: US drone strikes by Miran Shah, North Waziristan, kill a total of 6 militants according to an
unnamed intelligence officials, who was not authorized to speak to the media.[237]
• October 10, 2010: Drones fire 4 missiles on 2 vehicles and kill at least 8 militants in the Shewa District of North
Waziristan.[238]
• October 13, 2010: Drone attacks kill 11 militants in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.[239]
• October 15, 2010: Two US drone strikes kill 13 suspected militants. The first drone strike killed six suspected
militants in North Waziristan's Machi Khel area. Officials said two missiles hit an alleged militant vehicle. Later
this day the second drone strike killed 7 suspected militants in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.[240]
• October 18, 2010: A drone strike in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan kills 6 militants.[241]
• October 27, 2010: Two US drone strikes 12 hours apart killed 7 militants. The first strike was on a house of
militant Nasimullah Khan which killed 4 militants. The second strike was on a vehicle in Datta Khel kill which
killed 3 militants.[242]
• October 28, 2010: A US drone strike in the Datta Khel area kills 7 militants.[243]
• November 1, 2010: US-operated drones fired four missiles at a house in the Mir Ali District of North Wazaristan,
killing five or six suspected militants.[244] [245]
• November 3, 2010: US drones launch three separate attacks killing 13 militants. In the first attack, drones fired
two missiles at a vehicle in the Qutab Khel area of Miran Shah killing 5 Uzbek militants. In the second attack,
missiles struck a house and a vehicle in Khaso Khel village, near Mir Ali, killing 4 militants. In the third attack,
four missiles were fired hitting a vehicle in Pai Khel village in Datta Khel town, killing 4 militants.[246]
• November 7, 2010: Two US drones strikes kill a total 13 or 14 militants in the Miran Shah area of North
Waziristan. In the first attack, drones struck a house and a vehicle in the town of Ghulam Khan, north of Miran
Shah killing 9 militants. The second attack occurred an hour later in which drones stuck several vehicles in the
neighboring town of Datta Khel, killing 4 militants.[245] [247]
• November 11, 2010: A US drone strike kills 6 suspected militants in North Waziristan.[248] The militants were
reportedly Haqqani Network fighters returning from operations in Khost Province, Afghanistan.[249]
• November 13, 2010: A US drone strike kills five people in the village of Ahmad Khel in the Mir Ali area in
North Waziristan. A Geo News correspondent reported from the attack site that the deceased seemed to be
ordinary citizens, not terrorists.[250] [251]
• November 16, 2010: Four drone-fired missiles hit a house and vehicle in Bangi Dar village of North Waziristan,
killing 15 to 20 people, possibly including civilians.[252] [253]
• November 19, 2010: One US drone strike kills 3 suspected militants in the region of North Waziristan.[254]
• November 21, 2010: A US drone strike near Miran Shah, North Waziristan, kills 6 suspected militants.[255]
• November 22, 2010: A US drone strike fired missiles at a car and a motorcycle in North Waziristan killing 5
alleged militants.[256]
• November 26, 2010: A US drone strike fired missiles at a vehicle in North Waziristan killing 4 alleged
militants.[257]
• November 28, 2010: US drone missiles strike a vehicle in Hasan Khel village, around 30 kilometers east of
Miranshah. Initial reports indicated the strike killed 3 or 4 militants.[258] Local officials, however, later reported
that the suspected militants had survived the strike by fleeing the targeted vehicle after the first missile
missed.[259]
• December 6, 2010: A US drone strike in Khushali village, North Waziristan, kills 5 people.[260]
• December 9, 2010: At least four unknown people are killed by a US drone strike on a vehicle in Mir Ali, North
Waziristan according to anonymous Pakistani intelligence officials who suspect that they are militants.[261]
• December 14, 2010: At least four suspected militants were killed by a US drone strike on a vehicle in North
Waziristan.[262] [263] [264]
• December 15, 2010: US drone strike targeting a vehicle kills 7 suspected militants in Spin Drand area of Khyber
according to anonymous Pakistani intelligence officials.[265] [266]
• December 17, 2010: At least 60 suspected militants were killed in 3 US drones strikes what is the highest death
toll this year. According to security officials all the dead are suspected militants. - a claim that cannot be
independently confirmed. The first strike occurred at a compound in Speen Drang where pro-Taliban militants
from the Lashkar-e-Islam group were holding a meeting killing over 32. The second strike occurred in Nakai,
Khyber hitting a compound killing around 15. The last strike occurred at yet another compound in Sangana,
Khyber killing 6. According to unnamed official sources 39 of the killed belonged to Lashkar-e-Islam while 15
were Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. Extremist commander Ibn Amin was also killed in these strikes. He was a
Taliban commander for the Swat valley.[267] [268] [269] [270] [271]
• December 27, 2010: Two US drone strikes near Mir Ali area of North Waziristan kill a total of 18 unknown
people who were allegedly militants according to anonymous Pakistani intelligence officials.[272] [273]
• December 28, 2010: Two US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region Tuesday kill 17 people. The drones fired
two missiles on a suspected militant hideout in the area of Ghulam Khan. Later, a suspected drone circled around
the blast site and fired two more missiles. Six people were killed. The second attack was on an vehicle in the same
area, killing four more people.[274] [275]
• December 31, 2010: US drone missile strike kills 8 people near the town of Ghulam Khan in the North
Waziristan tribal agency according to Pakistani security officials who suspect that they are militants.[276] [277]
2011
January to March
• January 1, 2011: US drones launched 3 separate strikes killing 18 people. In the first strike, drones struck a
vehicle and a suspected militant compound in Mandi Khel, near Mir Ali, North Waziristan killing 9 people who
are believed to be militants according to anonymous Pakistani intelligence officials. In the second strike, drones
killed 5 alleged Taliban insurgents. In the last strike, a vehicle was struck in Boya village, in Datta Khel, North
Waziristan killing 4 people.[278] [279]
• January 7, 2011: According to anonymous Pakistani officials, a USA drone strike in North Waziristan killed at
least four alleged militants.[280]
• January 12, 2011: US drones fired 4 missile at a compound in Haiderkhel village near the town of Mir Ali in
North Waziristan killing 6 people.[281] [282] [283]
• January 18, 2011: A US drone strike kills at least five militants in North Waziristan according to anonymous
Pakistani security officials.[284]
• January 23, 2011: According to anonymous Pakistani security officials, Three drone strikes killed around 13
suspected militants in North Waziristan. In the first strike, two missiles hit a vehicle and a house in Doga Mada
Khel village, killing four people. Hours later, another drone fired two more missiles, killing two people riding a
motorcycle in the same village. In the third strike, a militant compound was struck at Mando Khel, 60km south of
Miram Shah near Razmak, North Waziristan killing 6 people.[285] [286] The same day around 2,000 tribesmen held
a protest in Mir Ali, demanding an end to the drone strikes, saying they killed innocent civilians.[287]
• February 21, 2011: Anonymous Pakistani intelligence officials announced that three drone-fired missiles
demolished a house in the village of Kaza Panga, Azam Warsak district, South Waziristan killing seven suspected
militants, including several Arabs and Turkmen.[288] One of those killed was reported by Pakistani officials to be
an Iraqi Al-qaeda finance coordinator named Abu Zaid al-Iraqi.[289] [290] Later that day, four missiles struck a
house being used as a base by Taliban in the village of Spalga near Miran Shah in North Waziristan, killing eight
suspected militants.[291] [292] [293]
• February 24, 2011: two separate strikes by drones kill 6 in North Waziristan.[294]
Observers speculated that the month-long delay in strikes from January to February was in response to the
arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis for killing two men in Lahore on January 27.[295] [296] Other reported
possible factors in the absence of strikes are poor winter weather, a deterioration in communication and
cooperation between the CIA and Pakistan's intelligence services, increased skill by militants in concealment,
and relocations of militants out of North and South Waziristan into other areas of Pakistan, such as
Kurram.[297]
US viewpoint
In 2009 Barack Obama authorized the continuation of these strikes after he became US president.[298] Top US
officials consider these strikes very successful and believe that the senior al-Qaeda leadership has been decimated by
these strikes.[299] [300] A list of the high-ranking victims of the drones was provided to Pakistan in 2009.[301] Obama
has broadened these attacks to include targets seeking to destabilize Pakistani civilian government and the attacks of
February 14 and 16, 2009 were against training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud.[302] On February 25, 2009 Leon
Panetta, the director of the CIA indicated the strikes will continue.[303] On March 4, 2009 The Washington Times
reported that the drones were targeting Baitullah Mehsud.[304] Obama was reported in March 2009 as considering
expanding these strikes to include Balochistan [305]
On March 25, 2010 US State Department legal advisor Harold Koh stated that the drone strikes were legal because
of the right to self-defense. According to Koh, the US is involved in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban,
and their affiliates and therefore may use force consistent with self-defense under international law.[306]
Former CIA officials state that the agency uses a careful screening process in making decisions on which individuals
to kill via drone strikes. The process, carried out at the agency's counterterrorist center, involves up to 10 lawyers
who write briefs justifying the targeting of specific individuals. According to the former officials, if the briefs'
arguments are weak, the request to target the individual is denied.[307] Since 2008 the CIA has relied less on its list of
individuals and increasingly targeted "signatures," or suspect behavior. This change in tactics has resulted in less
deaths of high-value targets and in more deaths of lower-level fighters, or "mere foot soldiers" as the one senior
Pakistani official told the Washinton Post.[296]
US officials stated in March 2009 that the Predator strikes had killed nine of al-Qaeda's 20 top commanders. The
officials added that many top Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, as a result of the strikes, had fled to Quetta or even
further to Karachi.[308]
Some US politicians and academics have condemned the drone strikes. US Congressman Dennis Kucinich asserted
that the United States was violating international law by carrying out strikes against a country that never attacked the
United States.[309] Georgetown University professor Gary D. Solis asserts that since the drone operators at the CIA
are civilians directly engaged in armed conflict, this makes them "unlawful combatants" and possibly subject to
prosecution.[310]
US military reports asserted that al-Qaeda is being slowly but systematically routed because of these attacks, and that
they have served to sow the seeds of uncertainty and discord among their ranks. They also claimed that the drone
attacks have addled and confused the Taliban, and have led them to turn against each other.[311] In July 2009 it was
reported that (according to US officials) Osama Bin Laden's son Saad bin Laden was believed to have been killed in
a drone attack earlier in the year.[312]
During a protest against drone attacks, in an event sponsored by Nevada Desert Experience, Father Louie Vitale,
Kathy Kelly, Stephen Kelly, SJ, Eve Tetaz, John Dear, and others were arrested outside Creech Air Force Base on
Wednesday April 9, 2009.[313] [314]
In May 2009 it was reported that the USA was sharing drone intelligence with Pakistan.[315] Leon Panetta reiterated
on May 19, 2009 that the US intended to continue the drone attacks.[316]
On July 14, 2009, Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution stated that although accurate data on the results of
drone strikes is difficult to obtain, it seemed that ten civilians had died in the drone attacks for every militant
killed.[317] He suggested that the real answer to halting al-Qaeda's activity in Pakistan will be long-term support of
Pakistan's counterinsurgency efforts.[318]
In December 2009 expansion of the drone attacks was authorized by President Barack Obama to parallel the decision
to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan.[319] Senior US officials are reportedly pushing for extending
the strikes into Quetta in Balochistan against the Quetta Shura.[320] Speaking at a news conference in Islamabad on
January 7, 2010 Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman stated the drone attacks were effective and would
continue but stated that US would make greater efforts to prevent collateral damage.[321] In an effort to strenghthen
trust with Pakistan 'US sharing drone surveillance data with Pakistan, says Mike Mullen '[322] US defence budget for
2011 asked for a 75% increase in funds to enhance the drone operations.[323]
The Associated Press (AP) noted that Barack Obama apparently expanded the scope and increased the
aggressiveness of the drone campaign against militants in Pakistan after taking office. According to the news agency,
the US increased strikes against the Pakistani Taliban, which earned favor from the Pakistani government, resulting
in increased cooperation from Pakistani intelligence services. Also, the Obama administration toned down the US
government's public rhetoric against Islamic terrorism, garnering better cooperation from other Islamic governments.
Furthermore, with the drawdown of the war in Iraq, more drones, support personnel, and intelligence assets became
available for the campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Since Obama took office, according to the AP, the number
of drones operated by the CIA over Afghanistan and Pakistan doubled.[324] A May 2010 Reuters report quoted
unnamed counterterrorism officials who speculated that the Obama administration's closure of the secret CIA
interrogation centers and intent to close the Guantanamo Bay prison was a direct influence on the expansion of the
drone targeted killings. According to the officials, the killings are necessary because there is no longer any place to
put captured terrorists.[325]
A study called 'The Year of the Drone" published in February 2010 by New America Foundation found that in a total
of 114 drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and early 2010 approximately between 834 and 1,216 individuals had
been killed, about two thirds of whom were thought to be militants and one third were civilians.[326]
Pakistani response
Pakistan has repeatedly protested these attacks as they are an
infringement of its sovereignty and because civilian deaths have also
resulted, including women and children, which has further angered the
Pakistani government and people.[328] [329] [330] General David
Petraeus was told in November 2008 that these strikes were
unhelpful.[331] However on October 4, 2008 The Washington Post
reported that there was a secret deal between the US and Pakistan
allowing these drone attacks.[332] US Senator Dianne Feinstein said in
February 2009: “As I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani
Shamsi airbase in 2006, reported to show three
base.”[333] Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi denied [327]
Predator drones.
that this was true.[334]
Between November 2008 and January 2009 Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy (AIRRA), a think
tank of researchers and activists from FATA and NWFP conducted a survey of the public opinion about the drone
strikes in Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Five teams of five researchers each interviewed 550 people from all
walks of life.[319] Based on the responses the researchers concluded 'The popular notion outside the Pakhtun belt that
a large majority of the local population supports the Taliban movement lacks substance'. Most people thought that
the drone attacks were accurate and did not lead to anti-American sentiment and were effective in damaging the
militants. In addition the locals wanted the Pakistani forces to also target the militants.[335] According to Farhat Taj a
member of AIRRA the drones have never killed any civilians. Some people in Waziristan compare the drones to
Ababils , the holy swallows sent by God to avenge Abraha, the invader of the Khana Kaaba.[336]
On September 28, a spokesman for the Pakistani army condemned Washington's killing of Pakistani civilians and
warned of retaliatory action: "Border violations by US-led forces in Afghanistan, which have killed scores of
Pakistani civilians, would no longer be tolerated, and we have informed them that we reserve the right to self defense
and that we will retaliate if the US continues cross-border attacks."[337] When the Soviets were in Afghanistan, the
potent Pakistani Air Force shot down any Soviet aircraft that strayed into Pakistan.[338] When an Indian drone strays
into Pakistani Airspace, it is also promptly dispatched by Pakistani Air Defences. [339]
The British newspaper The Times stated on February 18, 2009 that the CIA was using Shamsi airfield, 190 miles
(310 km) southwest of Quetta and 30 miles (48 km) from the Afghan border, as its base for drone operations. Safar
Khan, a journalist based in the area near Shamsi, told the Times, "We can see the planes flying from the base. The
area around the base is a high-security zone and no one is allowed there."[340] [340] Top US officials confirmed to
Fox News Channel that Shamsi airfield had been used by the CIA to launch the drones since 2002.[327]
The drone attacks continue, despite repeated requests made by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari through different
channels.[341] [342] Baitullah Mehsud while claiming responsibility for the 2009 Lahore police academy attacks,
stated that it was in retaliation for the drone attacks.[343] According to The Daily Telegraph, Pakistani intelligence
has agreed to secretly provide information to the United States on Mehsud's and his militants' whereabouts while
publicly the Pakistani government will continue to condemn the attacks.[344] According to Pakistani authorities, from
January 14, 2006 to April 8, 2009, 60 U.S. strikes against Pakistan killed 701 people, of which 14 were Al-Qaeda
militants and 687 innocent civilians.[345]
On April 28, 2009 Pakistan's consul general to the US, Aqil Nadeem, asked the US to hand over control of its drones
in Pakistan to his government. Said Nadeem, "Do we want to lose the war on terror or do we want to keep those
weapons classified? If the American government insists on our true cooperation, then they should also be helping us
in fighting those terrorists."[346] President Zardari has also requested that Pakistan be given control over the drones
but this has been rejected by the US who are worried that Pakistanis will leak information about targets to
militants.[69] In December 2009 Pakistan's Defence minister Ahmad Mukhtar acknowledged that Americans were
using Shamsi airfield but stated that Pakistan was not satisfied with payments for using the facility.[347]
In an analysis published in Daily Times on January 2, 2010 author Farhat Taj challenged the view that the local
people of Waziristan were against the drone attacks. Author states on the basis of personal interviews with people in
Waziristan that the locals in Waziristan support the attacks and see the drones as their 'liberators' from the clutches of
Taliban and Pakistan's Intelligence agencies. She further challenged the government of Pakistan to provide accurate
figures about the 'civilian' casualties and tell what methodology was used to collect this data. According to her 'The
people of Waziristan are suffering a brutal kind of occupation under the Taliban and al Qaeda. It is in this context
that they would welcome anyone, Americans, Israelis, Indians or even the devil, to rid them of the Taliban and al
Qaeda.'[348] In response to this analysis Irfan Husain writing in Dawn agreed with her assessment and called for
more drone attacks. He wrote 'We need to wake up to the reality that the enemy has grown very strong in the years
we temporized and tried to do deals with them. Clearly, we need allies in this fight. Howling at the moon is not going
to get us the cooperation we so desperately need. A solid case can be made for more drone attacks, not less.[349]
In December 2010 the CIA's Station Chief in Islamabad operating under the alias Jonathan Banks was hastily pulled
from the country.[350] [351] Lawsuits filed by families of victims of drone strikes had named Banks as a defendant, he
had been receiving death threats, and a Pakistani journalist whose brother and son died in a drone strike called for
prosecuting Banks for murder.[352] [353]
United Nations human rights concerns

On June 3, 2009, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) delivered a report sharply critical of US
tactics. The report asserted that the US government has failed to keep track of civilian casualties of its military
operations, including the drone attacks, and to provide means for citizens of affected nations to obtain information
about the casualties and any legal inquests regarding them.[354] Any such information held by the U.S. military is
allegedly inaccessible to the public due to the high level of secrecy surrounding the drone attacks program.[355] The
US representative at UNHRC has argued that the UN investigator for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
does not have jurisdiction over US military actions,[354] while another US diplomat claimed that the US military is
investigating any wrongdoing and doing all it can to furnish information about the deaths.[356]
On October 27, 2009 UNHRC investigator Philip Alston called on the US to demonstrate that it was not randomly
killing people in violation of international law through its use of drones on the Afghan border. Alston criticized the
US's refusal to respond to date to the UN's concerns. Said Alston, "Otherwise you have the really problematic bottom
line, which is that the Central Intelligence Agency is running a program that is killing significant numbers of people
and there is absolutely no accountability in terms of the relevant international laws."[357]
On June 2, 2010 Alston's team released a report on its investigation into the drone strikes, criticizing the United
States for being, "the most prolific user of targeted killings" in the world. Alston, however, acknowledged that the
drone attacks may be justified under the right to self-defense. He called on the US to be more open about the
program. Alston's report was submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the following day.[358]
Interviews with people from Waziristan

Between November 2008 and January 2009 Pakistani Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy
conducted a survey of the public opinion about the drone strikes in Federally Administered Tribal Areas. 5 teams of
5 researchers each interviewed a total of 550 people from all walks of life. Most people thought that the drone
attacks were accurate and did not lead to anti-American sentiment and were effective in damaging the militants.[319]
In an analysis published in Daily Times (Pakistan) on January 2, 2010 Farhat Taj, a research fellow at the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Oslo and a member of Aryana Institute for Regional Research and
Advocacy discussed the issue of drone attacks with hundreds of people of Waziristan. She claims that they see the
US drone attacks as their liberators from the clutches of Islamist militiants into which, they say, their state has
wilfully thrown them. She claims that estimates about civilian casualties in the US and Pakistani media are wrong
because after every attack Islamist militiants cordon off the area and no one, including the local villagers, is allowed
to come even near the targeted place. The militants themselves collect the bodies, bury the dead and then issue the
statement that all of them were innocent civilians. However, according to the people of Waziristan, the only civilians
who have been killed so far in the drone attacks are women or children of the militants in whose houses/compounds
they hold meetings. But that used to happen in the past and now they don’t hold meetings at places where women
and children of the militants reside. In one case when the funeral procession of an Islamist commander was hit and
some civilians were killed. But after the attack people got the excuse of not attending the funeral of slain militants or
offering them food.
Farhat Taj claims that locals usually appreciate drone attacks when they compare it with the Pakistan Army’s attacks,
which always result in collateral damage. People said that when a drone would hover over the skies, they wouldn’t be
disturbed and would carry on their usual business because they would be sure that it does not target the civilians, but
the same people would run for shelter when a Pakistani jet would appear in the skies because of its indiscriminate
firing. They say that even in the same compound only the exact room — where a high value target (HVT) is present
— is targeted and others in the same compound are spared.[359]
In response to this analysis Irfan Husain writing in Dawn agreed with Farhat Taj's assessment and called for more
drone attacks. He wrote: "We need to wake up to the reality that the enemy has grown very strong in the years we
temporized and tried to do deals with them. Clearly, we need allies in this fight. Howling at the moon is not going to
get us the cooperation we so desperately need. A solid case can be made for more drone attacks, not less."[349]
Civilian casualties
According to anonymous counterterrorism officials, in 2009 or 2010 CIA drones began employing smaller missiles
in airstrikes in Pakistan in order to reduce civilian casualties. The new missiles, called the Small Smart Weapon or
Scorpion, are reportedly about the size of a violin case (21 inches long) and weigh 16 kg. The missiles are used in
combination with new technology intended to increase accuracy and expand surveillance, including the use of small,
unarmed surveillance drones to exactly pinpoint the location of targets. These "micro-UAVs" (unmanned aerial
vehicles) can be roughly the size of a pizza platter and meant to monitor potential targets at close range, for hours or
days at a time. One former U.S. official who worked with micro-UAVs said that they can be almost impossible to
detect at night. "It can be outside your window and you won't hear a whisper," the official said.[360]
A January 2011 report by Bloomberg stated that civilian casualties in the strikes had apparently decreased.
According to the report, the U.S. Government believed that 1,300 militants and only 30 civilians had been killed in
drone strikes since mid-2008, with no civilians killed since August 2010.[361] The News International, however,
states that 59% of the 1,184 people the newspaper says were killed in 2010 were civilians.[362]
Bill Roggio, of the Long War Journal, explained "The CIA is classifying drivers, bodyguards and such as
combatants. The CIA is not losing sleep over their deaths."[363] United States officials claim that interviews with
locals do not provide accurate numbers of civilian casualties because relatives or acquaintances of the dead refuse to
admit that the victims were involved in militant activities.[364]

Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution suggests that drone strikes may kill "10 or so civilians" for every
militant killed, which would represent a civilian to combatant casualty ratio of 10:1. Byman argues that civilian
killings constitute a humanitarian tragedy and create dangerous political problems, including damage to the
legitimacy of the Pakistani government and alienation of the Pakistani populace from America.[365]
The CIA reportedly passed up three chances to kill militant leaders, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, with drone
missiles in 2010 because women and children were nearby. The New America Foundation believes that between
zero and 18 civilians have been killed in drone strikes since August 23, 2010 and that overall civilian casualties have
decreased from 25% of the total in prior years to an estimated 6% in 2010. The Foundation estimates that between
277 and 435 noncombatants have died since 2004, out of 1,374 to 2,189 total deaths.[366]
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External links
• Pakistanis slam US drone attacks (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/154906.html) Javed Rana, Press TV,
Islamabad, Dec 10, 2010
• JaneMayer (October 26, 2009). "The Predator War" (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/
091026fa_fact_mayer). The New Yorker. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
• Interactive Map on U.S. Airstrikes in Pakistan from the Center for American Progress (http://www.
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• Charting the data for US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2010, created by Bill Roggio and Alexander Mayer (http://
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• Google Map of U.S. Drone Attacks in Pakistan since 2004 (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&
hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=113923708338551641006.00047caa42cb2374421e4&ll=33.031693,70.587158&
spn=1.611824,3.295898&z=8&source=embed)
• UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston Responds to US Defense of Drone Attacks’ Legality (http://www.
democracynow.org/2010/4/1/drones) – video report by Democracy Now!
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US Drone Strike Statistics[]

2008 33 273 313

2009 53 368 724

2010 118 607 993

Total 224 1,383 2,204

• January 1, 2009: 2 senior al-Qaeda

• January 1, 2010: Missile strike on a

United Nations human rights concerns

Interviews with people from Waziristan

admit that the victims were involved in militant activities.[364]

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