Pepe Escobar: . . . the success rate of the Barack Obama administration’s “hell from above” Predator drone war over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is a mere 6%. Of “60 Predator strikes between January 14, 2006, and April 8, 2009, only 10 hit their targets, killing 14 wanted al-Qaeda leaders” but most of all “killing 687 innocent Pakistani civilians”.
Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan: The people we are fighting in Afghanistan and the people they are sheltering in western Pakistan pose a direct threat – those are the men of 9/11, the people that killed [former prime minister] Benazir Bhutto – and you can be sure that as we sit here today they are planning further attacks on the United States and our allies.