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Hundreds of slaughtered civilians isn't a 'huge number' for Obama

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Hundreds of slaughtered civilians isn't a 'huge number' for Obama


Those drone attacks, carried out by unmanned aircraft controlled thousands of miles away, don’t do a lot of harm, said the president. According to Obama, drones had "not caused a huge number of civilian casualties” and he added that it’s "important for everybody to understand that this thing is kept on a very tight leash.”

How small is that not-so huge number? If you ask anyone outside of the American intelligence community, they’ll tell you it is in the hundreds..... MORE

SourceRT.com

URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/drones-civilian-death-obama-187/

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