... Yet roughly
once a week since that day, he has ordered the assassination of suspected
terrorists. These assassinations, carried out with Hellfire missiles fired from
hovering drones, are often messy. According to the
New
America Foundation,
a think-tank, it took 15 attempts to kill Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban leader in
Pakistan
who was finally blown to scraps in August. Hundreds of people, some of them
children, have died in these drone attacks.
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