Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published January 31, 2012.
President Barack Obama has acknowledged for the first time that his administration has ordered drone strikes in Pakistan and other countries overseas. The statement came in an interview Monday night. The officially covert program has been drawing international attention, as civilians in Pakistan protest the strikes and as activists in the US protest where the drones are manufactured and controlled. A suspected US drone strike Monday killed between 9 and 13 people in southern Yemen raising more questions about the legality of carrying out these attacks when no official war has been declared. From Washington, DC. FSRN’s Alice Ollstein has more.
For more information on US drone strikes, including civilian deaths, visit the Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/drone-data/
