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Sept. ‘10—Feb. ‘11 Civilians killed: 25-117 Children Killed: 5+
TBIJ REPORTED CIVILIAN DEATHS Sept. ‘10—Jan. ‘11 Civilians Killed: 25-106 Children Killed: 5+
Reuters / The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
August 23, 2010: Reuters report four women and three children were among the twenty dead in a strike on a house in North Waziristan.825 TBIJ has pictures of children orphaned by the strike.826
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
October 18, 2010: Shrapnel from a strike on a house kills 10-year-old, Naeem Ullah, who was in the next-door house.824
Bloomberg News
EXAMPLES OF CONTRADICTORY INFORMATION Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., tells Bloomberg unintended casualties are “the subject of an ongoing dialogue” between the US and Pakistan.822
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-31/u-s-said-to-reduce-civilian-deaths-after-increasing-cia-pakistan-strikes.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-31/u-s-said-to-reduce-civilian-deaths-after-increasing-cia-pakistan-strikes.html. 823 http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/22/world/la-fg-drone-strikes-20110222. 824 A picture of Naeem’s body can be found here: http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/obama-2010-strikes/. 825 http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/23/us-pakistan-drone-idUSTRE67M44U20100823. 826 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/08/10/obama-2010-strikes/.
821
Unnamed U.S. intelligence official
No civilian casualties between midAugust 2010 and January 2011, despite increased frequency of CIA strikes in Pakistan.821 Unnamed U.S. official to Bloomberg News No civilians killed in at least 75 strikes since mid-Aug.823
January 2011
February 2011
U.S. ASSERTIONS
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APPENDIX C US STATEMENTS ON CIVILIAN CASUALTIES