WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Admitted Drone Strikes Counterproductive [View all]
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WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Admitted Drone Strikes Counterproductive
By TeleSUR
19 December 14
Controversial U.S. drone strikes may be helping rather than hindering the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to a leaked CIA document released by Wikileaks Thursday.
The CIA document appears to be a 2009 internal review of the agency’s "High Value Target" (HVT) assassination program.
The HVT program selected specific insurgent figures for targeted assassination, often by drone strikes.
Despite the report’s secret publication in 2009, drone strikes increased.
Independent estimates suggest U.S. forces have conducted more than 1,000 drone strikes over Afghanistan since invading the country over a decade ago. Human rights groups say hundreds of civilians have been killed or maimed by drones, and that the strikes are widely unpopular on the ground.
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