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The New America Foundation estimates that in Pakistan, drones have killed between 1,953 and 3,279 people since 2004 - and that between 18% and 23% of them were not militants. The nonmilitant casualty rate was down to about 10% in 2012, the group ...

The appearance Friday in a lower Manhattan courtroom of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and one-time al Qaeda spokesman, to face charges of conspiracy to kill Americans underlines the perhaps surprising fact that members of bin Laden's inner circle have been living in Iran for the past decade or so.

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George Venizelos, the FBI's assistant director in charge, asserted Thursday in a written statement that the recently arrested "Sulaiman Abu Ghaith held a key position in al Qaeda, comparable to a consigliere in a mob family."

This is overblown. Though he was Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Abu Ghaith is far from a big fish in al Qaeda.

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"The government has said they will not attempt, even against major (terror) figures like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to use information that was obtained through water boarding," Toobin said. CNN security analyst Peter Bergen said Abu Ghaith appears not to ...

The United States has carried out 349 "CIA drone strikes" in Pakistan and 61 in Yemen, according to Washington-based non-partisan think tank The New America Foundation. When it comes to drone strikes in Indiana or New York, the administration insists ...

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism gives a similar estimate. CNN terrorism expert Peter Bergen says at least 250 to 300 civilians have likely been killed, which has caused public resentment in targeted countries like Pakistan and Yemen. CNN's Adam ...

"It's not like you have the exact longitude and latitude of each strike," said Peter Bergen, a CNN national-security analyst. "As an art project, this (Dronestagram) is interesting," Bergen said. "As a piece of actual journalism ... it seems quite off ...

On Monday Esquire magazine published a massive profile of the Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden.

Weighing in at some 15,000 words, the story does not identify the killer of al Qaeda's leader by his real name and refers to him only as "the Shooter."

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As CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen puts it, a decade ago the United States "had a virtual monopoly on drones. Not anymore." More than 70 countries now have some type of drone -- although only a few possess armed drones, according to The ...