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spawarotti | 3 years ago

According to [0] the toll of civilian deaths is 9% not ~90%:

> The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.

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HALtheWise|3 years ago

I don't know how significant this is, but "not the intended target" and "civilian" could mean very different things. In particular, it seems likely that a strike targeted at a terrorist leader has a high chance of killing their aides or others in the car, who are probably members of the terror cell, even though they weren't the actual target of the strike.

andirk|3 years ago

Thank you. Edited to be very specific instead of a blanket percentage.