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The Brookings Institution estimates that the Central Intelligence Agency has launched 137 missile attacks from unmanned drones flying high over the Hindu Kush into the so-called tribal areas of Pakistan. Those missiles have probably killed about 30 civilians over the past two years in the process of assassinating 500-or-so al-Qaeda terrorists, CBS' David Martin guessed. "Impressive numbers," he admitted," but there is no way to verify them because no one will officially admit the strikes are taking place." That shroud of secrecy is maintained "because neither the United States nor Pakistan wants to admit that the CIA routinely violates Pakistani sovereignty." It also means, according to a United Nations report, that the drone strikes "amount to a license to kill without being accountable."
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