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'via Blog this'Afghanistan and Pakistan. Since Obama took office, according to the AP, the number of drones operated by the CIA over Afghanistan and Pakistan doubled.[47] A May 2010 Reuters report quoted unnamed counterterrorism officials who speculated that the Obama administration's closure of the secret CIA interrogation centers and intent to close the Guantanamo Bay prison was a direct influence on the expansion of the drone targeted killings. According to the officials, the killings are necessary because there is no longer any place to put captured terrorists.[48]
A study called 'The Year of the Drone" published in February 2010 by the New America Foundationfound that from a total of 114 drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and early 2010, approximately between 834 and 1,216 individuals had been killed. About two thirds of whom were thought to be militants and one third were civilians.[2]
On 28 April 2011, president Barack Obama appointed General David Petraeus as director of theCIA overseeing the drone attacks. According to Pakistani and American officials this could further inflame relations between the two nations.[49]
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