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From the Pentagon, CBS' David Martin picked up on a Website item purportedly posted by an al-Qaeda commander. It was a commentary on the 50 different airstrikes inside Pakistan over the past year by the CIA's unmanned Predator drone. The CIA says its drones have killed "half of al-Qaeda's top leaders and hundreds of its fighters," Martin reported, and this online communique appears to authenticate that. "The harm is alarming. The matter is very grave," Martin quoted. "So many brave commanders have been snatched away. So many hidden homes have been leveled." It claimed the CIA's success followed from an infiltration by spies "who have spread through the land like locusts."
That note about leveled homes raises the question of drones killing civilians. Martin asked an unidentified "senior official" and was offered the following unsupported assertion: "More innocent people have been executed by al-Qaeda as suspected spies than killed by CIA drones." Specific facts and figures would have given that anonymous source's nebulous claim more weight
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