Almost 2,500 Now Killed by Covert US Drone Strikes Since Obama Inauguration Six Years Ago

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US increases its strikes in Pakistan with drones flying out of Afghanistan

Almost 2,500 Now Killed by Covert US Drone Strikes Since Obama Inauguration Six Years Ago
Jack Serle, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Monday, February 02, 2015

At least 2,464 people have now been killed by US drone strikes outside the country’s declared war zones since President Barack Obama’s inauguration six years ago, the Bureau’s latest monthly report reveals.

Of the total killed since Obama took his oath of office on January 20 2009, at least 314 have been civilians, while the number of confirmed strikes under his administration now stands at 456.

Research by the Bureau also shows there have now been nearly nine times more strikes under Obama in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than there were under his predecessor, George W Bush.

And the covert Obama strikes, the first of which hit Pakistan just three days after his inauguration, have killed almost six times more people and twice as many civilians than those ordered in the Bush years, the data shows.