“A new report from a team of British and Pakistani journalists finds one U.S. drone strike occurs every four days in Pakistan. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed as many as 775 civilians, including 168 children, since 2004. The report also challenges a recent claim by President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, that no civilians have been killed in the drone attacks for nearly a year. According to the Bureau’s researchers, at least 45 civilians were killed in 10 U.S. attacks during the last year. We speak with Chris Woods, an award-winning reporter who leads the drones investigation team for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/15/investigation_finds_us_drones_strike_pakistan

“The civilian toll of the C.I.A.’s drone campaign, which is widely credited with disrupting Al Qaeda and its allies in Pakistan’s tribal area, has been in bitter dispute since the strikes were accelerated in 2008. Accounts of strike after strike from official and unofficial sources are so at odds that they often seem to describe different events.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/asia/12drones.html?_r=1&hp

See also this report from Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/12/pakistan_drones_children&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110

http://twitter.com/#!/Reuters/status/611448897647…

Maybe we'll soon start flying drone missions over America's inner cities. That ought to solve the problem with we have with crime, if you follow the logic we seem to be following in the Middle East.