Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani has told a parliamentary committee that about 3000 people have been killed in the U.S. drone attacks after the operation was started in 2004.
On Aug. 5, 2009, a U.S. drone killed Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistan Taliban who is believed to have been behind the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. However, the drone which killed Mehsud and his wife also obliterated the entire building they were in, killing nine other people. This was the United States' 15th attempt to kill Mehsud. Along the way, U.S. drones killed between 204 and 321 people. Of the scores of people dubbed terrorists who have been targeted by American military drone strikes, three men -- all killed in the fall of 2011 -- were U.S. citizens.
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