On average, the Americans have carried out seven attacks per month and approximately two strikes per week during the last seven months.
The Afghanistan-based American predators have carried out a record number of 50 drone strikes inside the Pakistani tribal belt in the first seven months of the year 2010 [between January and July to surpass last year’s 45 hits, killing 13 al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked terrorists at the cost of 476 innocent civilians.
According to the data compiled by Pakistani authorities, only 13 of the 50 strikes carried out by the US drones could hit their actual targets while the remaining 37 attacks went wrong due to faulty intelligence information, thus killing hundreds of civilians, including women and children.
On average, the Americans have carried out seven attacks per month and approximately two strikes per week during the last seven months. And for each terrorist killed, 33 civilians also had to die. The success percentage for the drone hits in the first seven months of 2010 thus comes to hardly 26%.
On average, 68 civilians were killed in each drone attack every month, 17 persons every week and almost two people every day.
Most of these attacks were conducted on the basis of human intelligence, reportedly provided by Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen, who spy for the US-led allied forces stationed in Afghanistan.
The escalation of the US predator strikes in the Pakistani tribal areas have tripled since January 2009, when Barack Obama took over the presidency, replacing George Bush. In his first eighteen months in the presidency, Obama has authorised more drone attacks in Pakistan than Bush did till his ouster in December 2008.
Compared with the 43 drone strikes carried out by the Bush administration, which killed 562 people, the Obama administration has already conducted 95 drone attacks since assuming power on January 20, 2009, killing 1205 people.
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