Thursday

This is an MQ-1 Predator Drone, used by the US Military in Afghanistan.





The Brookings Institution, a non-partisan think tank, writes: "Critics correctly find many problems with this program, most of all the number of civilian casualties the strikes have incurred. Sourcing on civilian deaths is weak and the numbers are often exaggerated, but more than 600 civilians are likely to have died from the attacks. That number suggests that for every militant killed, 10 or so civilians also died."