Re: Malala Yousufzai attacked
Latest … until 10 Oct 2012:
Reported by Bureau of investigative journalism
Total drone strikes (from 2004 to 10 Oct 2012): 347
Total reported killed: 2572 (Min) to 3341 (Max)
Civilians reported killed: 474 (Min) to 884 (Max)
Out of those civilians, total number of children ~ 176
Total injured: 1232(Min reported) to 1366 (Maximum reported)
That means 2398 (Min) to 2457 (Max) terrorist animals got killed due to drone strikes
Until March 2009, 9 out of top 20 A-Q commanders got killed by drones (the figure must be much higher today). Result was that, to save their lives, many top A-Q and Taliban commanders moved out of Tribal areas to settled areas, especially Quetta and Karachi.
Compare that with number of innocent civilians, Pakistan government officials and Pakistan armed personals these Taliban and A-Q animals killed … that I believe could be in 10s of thousands, thousands of them children.
In my opinion, even though few hundred civilians got killed due to drones, drone strikes killed few thousand terrorists. Actually, drone strikes also saved lives of many innocent Pakistanis by not only killing these A-Q and Taliban animals but causing fears in their heart and mind.
[As for number of children that got killed, it is believed that some of them who got killed I believe in 2006, were getting terrorist or suicide training in one of the Madrasas during night time (hours before fajar), so if the report is right than these children were brainwashed and were Taliban weapons for killing innocent civilians].