:00:12. > :00:18.It's the weapon that kills its target by remote control thousands
:00:18. > :00:22.of miles away. It's a very humane type of warfare given the ugliness
:00:22. > :00:29.and the killing that warfare entails. America says its drones
:00:29. > :00:33.are destroying al-Qaeda, protecting western lives. This thing is kept
:00:33. > :00:36.on a very tight leash. But the drones are killing civilians, women
:00:36. > :00:40.and children, as well. As children lose their lives, then the battle
:00:40. > :00:47.for the hearts and minds is immediately lost. Tonight, the
:00:47. > :00:52.secret war that's angered a whole nation. No more drones. No more
:00:52. > :00:56.drones! Is it making us any safer? This is completely
:00:56. > :01:06.counterproductive. It actually helps the militants to recruit
:01:06. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:25.The tribal area of Pakistan, a no- man's-land which westerners rarely
:01:25. > :01:31.get to. Britain's 7/7 bombers trained here. It's home to al-Qaeda
:01:31. > :01:36.and a dangerous brew of militants. Pakistan's army fought a bitter war
:01:36. > :01:41.here in south Waziristan. Below are ruined compounds once the militants
:01:41. > :01:45.stronghold. But the authorities fragile hold is
:01:46. > :01:51.threatened by another secret war, carried out by America's CIA with
:01:51. > :01:54.drones and deadly missiles. The strikes have angered people here in
:01:54. > :02:04.Pakistan and they've caused controversy around the world over
:02:04. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:14.their legality and the human cost. The Pakistan army now control most
:02:14. > :02:18.of south Waziristan. 300,000 people fled the fighting and Brigadier
:02:18. > :02:26.Hassan's priority is to encourage them to come home. The destruction
:02:26. > :02:34.in this area was horrifying. Such a collateral damage, it takes a lot
:02:34. > :02:38.of time to fix things up. In this hill-top village only a few people
:02:38. > :02:48.have trick amed -- trickled back. Many of their compounds were
:02:48. > :02:58.
:02:58. > :03:00.occupied first by the militants and But Waziristan's also suffered from
:03:00. > :03:07.the American drone strikes. Everyone here says they're against
:03:08. > :03:12.them. You can make out from their sound and you can also see them at
:03:12. > :03:16.times you see two or three drones together. What do you think with
:03:16. > :03:19.the the -- about the American drone strikes in Waziristan? There is no
:03:19. > :03:24.public acceptance and no military acceptance on the drones so it's
:03:24. > :03:31.very difficult to say that they are doing the right thing. The
:03:31. > :03:37.sentiments go against drones. army is distributing aid to
:03:37. > :03:42.returning refugees. The Government says they're now committed to
:03:42. > :03:45.developing this remote and backward area to combat militancy here.
:03:45. > :03:51.But the US drone strikes are creating a backlash against the
:03:51. > :03:55.army's campaign of hearts and minds. TRANSLATION:
:03:55. > :03:59.We have heard the drone noise but there hasn't been a strike around
:03:59. > :04:08.here. But you can never tell with a drone. Sometimes Little Children
:04:08. > :04:11.also get hit. For eight years, American drones
:04:11. > :04:17.have targeted militants in Pakistan's tribal area, mainly in
:04:17. > :04:20.north and south Waziristan. There have been more than 300 drone
:04:21. > :04:26.strikes. Some monitoring organisations say
:04:26. > :04:32.over 3,000 people have been killed. America won't give a figure. No one
:04:32. > :04:40.knows how many civilians have died and been injured.
:04:40. > :04:44.On October 24th, one drone struck in a village near Miran Shah in
:04:44. > :04:53.north Waziristan. Eight-year-old Nabila ur-Rehman was outside the
:04:53. > :04:58.family compound that day. Her grandmother, Bibi Mammana was
:04:58. > :05:03.picking vegetables. TRANSLATION: I was looking after my cow and my
:05:03. > :05:08.grandmother was nearby. The missile hit the ground behind us. We ran
:05:08. > :05:15.towards the house. Granny was in front and was hit by another
:05:16. > :05:19.missile. Kalim ran out of the house to try and help his grandmother.
:05:19. > :05:24.TRANSLATION: Five to seven minutes later, the
:05:24. > :05:28.drone returned and struck again. I was injured, and knocked
:05:28. > :05:33.unconscious. When Rafik, the children's father
:05:33. > :05:39.heard about the strike, he rushed home to find his mother's grave
:05:39. > :05:43.being dug. TRANSLATION: I threw myself over the coffin but
:05:43. > :05:49.the box was closed. The family told me not to open it as she had been
:05:49. > :05:52.hit bay missile and -- hit by a missile and her body was in pieces.
:05:52. > :06:00.He showed me his mother's passport, pictures of her grave and the spot
:06:00. > :06:05.the drone had struck. The family had collected up missile parts,
:06:05. > :06:08.evidence, they say. It's impossible to independently verify what
:06:08. > :06:16.happens in the tribal areas. One local press report at the time
:06:16. > :06:19.claimed an Arab and Pakistani militant were killed, as well. The
:06:19. > :06:23.Americans say they only do these drone strikes when they're sure
:06:23. > :06:27.that there are militants, al-Qaeda, inside the house. TRANSLATION:
:06:27. > :06:33.There were no militants in my house. In our family, there are Government
:06:33. > :06:41.people, school teachers, not militants.
:06:41. > :06:46.The family have come to the capital to get medical help. Kalim's leg
:06:46. > :06:51.was badly broken in the strike. The doctor has seen many people
:06:51. > :06:56.injuries caused by drones. The most important thing in open
:06:56. > :07:02.fractures caused by these blast injuries and drone attacks, they
:07:02. > :07:07.cause infection and infection can be very severe. It may become limb-
:07:07. > :07:14.threatening and life-threatening. What are these white marks,
:07:15. > :07:18.shrapnel? Slab Nell, met -- slab Nell, metal piece impacted.
:07:18. > :07:22.shrapnel wounds are heeling but her brother will need an operation.
:07:22. > :07:27.They strike our children, create orphans, what crime have we
:07:27. > :07:32.committed against America? What bad deed have we done that they hit us
:07:32. > :07:36.like this? America is increasingly using
:07:36. > :07:40.drones as counterterrorism weapons in the Middle East, Africa and
:07:41. > :07:46.Central Asia. The drones fly at up to 50,000 feet
:07:46. > :07:55.and can hover for almost 24 hours over targets using surveillance
:07:55. > :08:00.cameras. They're armed hellfire missiles and other bombs.
:08:00. > :08:04.The drones are controlled thousands of miles away in America, more
:08:04. > :08:08.drone pilots are now being trained by the US Air Force and
:08:08. > :08:14.conventional fighter pilots. The Americans say this isn't a video
:08:14. > :08:17.game. There are checks and balances at many levels. Drones are here to
:08:17. > :08:21.stay for many reasons. We should view drones as part of this
:08:22. > :08:24.revolution in military affairs, essentially, you can be more risk
:08:24. > :08:31.acceptant because at the end of the day if the drone goes down, the
:08:31. > :08:34.pilot still goes home for dinner. This man was former US Director of
:08:34. > :08:39.National Intelligence. Dennis Blair was in charge of America's entire
:08:39. > :08:46.effort to find, track and take out terrorists by any means, including
:08:46. > :08:49.drones. Nothing in the American use of drones is any less rigid in
:08:49. > :08:55.terms of permissions to use deadly force than previous weapons. In
:08:55. > :09:00.fact, in many ways it's more precise and more careful and
:09:00. > :09:05.controls can be greater than they are for the more traditional forms
:09:05. > :09:09.of warfare. Britain too flies drones in
:09:09. > :09:14.Afghanistan. The joint programme with America has the consent of the
:09:14. > :09:21.Afghan Government. The majority of flights are for surveillance. UK
:09:21. > :09:24.strikes have resulted in four civilian casualties. We provide
:09:24. > :09:30.combat intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to support our
:09:30. > :09:34.troops on the ground but we bound everything we do to rules of
:09:34. > :09:38.engagement and to legitimate and legal targets.
:09:38. > :09:44.The Americans also use drones in Somalia and Yemen against al-Qaeda
:09:44. > :09:47.with the permission of those governments. But in Pakistan, it's
:09:47. > :09:51.different. The authorities there say they're against the strikes. So
:09:52. > :09:57.the drones aren't run openly by the US military, but in secret by the
:09:57. > :10:02.CIA. I don't like that my country is in
:10:02. > :10:08.the business of extra judicial killing. I'm not comfortable with
:10:08. > :10:13.the legislative framework that we are still using to kill people 12
:10:13. > :10:19.years later after 9/11 who are at best tenuously involved with al-
:10:19. > :10:22.Qaeda, and may not have been al- Qaeda activists when this war began.
:10:23. > :10:28.In Pakistan, it is not the Government which is making a huge
:10:28. > :10:32.huge stink about drones. It's this man, Imran Khan, the cricketer
:10:32. > :10:37.turned politician. The idea that someone is sitting thousands of
:10:37. > :10:44.miles away watching a computer screen and then pressing a button,
:10:44. > :10:48.it is just so awful the idea that you just eliminate these people.
:10:48. > :10:52.Imran Khan's standing for election next year and in October his party
:10:52. > :11:00.organised a protest rally to get thousands of people out on to the
:11:00. > :11:05.streets. Polls show that 97% of Pakistanis aware of drones oppose
:11:05. > :11:11.them. Khan's plan was to take a convoy 300 miles from Islamabad to
:11:11. > :11:16.south Waziristan. We are hoping that this is going to become huge.
:11:16. > :11:21.We don't know as yet what to expect once we reach the tribal areas but
:11:21. > :11:27.it could be the beginning of a change here, another strategy, a
:11:27. > :11:31.peace rather than relying on military and drones and operations.
:11:31. > :11:36.Clive from here, you have to come in the back... Clive Stafford Smith,
:11:36. > :11:40.one of the rally's organisers, has campaigned for a decade against
:11:40. > :11:45.America's war on terror. When people ask about the legality of
:11:45. > :11:50.the drone war in Pakistan, Waziristan, there's a simple word
:11:50. > :11:55.for it and it's illegal. There's no declared war. So it's all an
:11:55. > :12:00.international crime really. The US says the strikes here are legal.
:12:00. > :12:04.The laws of war allow them to target al-Qaeda which threatens
:12:04. > :12:09.American lives. They think they can do it because it's the CIA denying
:12:09. > :12:13.they do it and at the same time it's all secrecy and no American
:12:13. > :12:18.people actually there. What that does is increase the instability of
:12:18. > :12:23.the world in a dramatic way because the US can have a war effectively
:12:23. > :12:26.wherever it likes without declaring it or even admitting it.
:12:26. > :12:33.American peace activists have joined the rally, many of them are
:12:33. > :12:43.women. There are Americans like us who are solidarity with you and
:12:43. > :12:48.
:12:48. > :12:57.Imran Khan's from the tribal areas. He finds an audience receptive to
:12:57. > :13:03.his message that the drone war is fuelling militancy. This is
:13:03. > :13:07.completely counterproductive, actually America is getting unsafe
:13:07. > :13:15.because of these drone attacks. The anger and anti-Americanism because
:13:15. > :13:21.of the drone attacks directly feeds into militants, militancy. It
:13:21. > :13:24.actually helps the militants to recruit people. As darkness falls,
:13:24. > :13:30.they're only 50 miles short of Waziristan, but it's dangerous to
:13:30. > :13:36.go on. So thousands of cars and buses stop for the night and Imran
:13:36. > :13:42.and the foreign guests retire to a local compound. This is a gamble.
:13:42. > :13:47.This is a risk. This is certainly out of even my comfort zone. This
:13:47. > :13:52.attempt here is to lift the veil of secrecy, to open it up, to force
:13:52. > :14:00.the Obama administration to come clean and to be transparent and
:14:00. > :14:05.accountable. Under President Obama there have
:14:05. > :14:08.been six times as many drone strikes in Pakistan as under his
:14:08. > :14:15.predecessor George Bush. But it wasn't until this year the
:14:15. > :14:18.President and his officials even admitted using drones here. I think
:14:18. > :14:23.that there is this perception somehow that we are just sending in
:14:23. > :14:27.a bunch of strikes willy-nilly. It is important for everybody to
:14:27. > :14:31.understand that this thing is kept on a tight leash. America says the
:14:31. > :14:38.drone wars have been successful in killing significant targets, al-
:14:38. > :14:42.Qaeda and other militants. As many as 300, according to insiders.
:14:42. > :14:46.removed al-Qaeda's ability to conduct large-scale carefully
:14:46. > :14:51.rehearsed multiteam attacks against western countries of the type we
:14:51. > :14:56.saw at 9/11. They couldn't meet, they couldn't train. They couldn't
:14:56. > :15:00.send money. They couldn't provide any kind of command and controls.
:15:00. > :15:04.The President's closely involved in who is targeted and can sometimes
:15:04. > :15:14.make the final call. That now worries the man who watched the
:15:14. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:21.De Mort the president is involved in the individual tactical details,
:15:21. > :15:30.the less he is able to judge if it is working -- the more the
:15:30. > :15:34.President. Like many new technologies, it tends to suck high
:15:34. > :15:37.level leaders into a greater extent than they probably should.
:15:37. > :15:39.It is the civilian casualties which have caused the biggest controversy.
:15:39. > :15:46.Independent databases reckon between 140 and 880 civilians have
:15:46. > :15:51.died. I want to make sure the people understand that drones have
:15:51. > :15:53.not caused a huge amount of civilian deaths.
:15:53. > :16:03.The Obama administration refuses to discuss how many civilians they
:16:03. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:06.have killed and deny targeting rescuers with follow up strikes.
:16:06. > :16:10.my experience, it is the collateral damage, the killing of people that
:16:10. > :16:13.happen to be in the vicinity of targets, is held to a minimum with
:16:13. > :16:19.these weapons because of their accuracy and the warheads and the
:16:19. > :16:22.careful procedures that are used for them. So I think it is a very
:16:22. > :16:25.humane type of warfare, given the ugliness and the killing that
:16:25. > :16:30.warfare entails no matter how it is done.
:16:30. > :16:32.The militants are defiant in the face of the American drones. These
:16:32. > :16:42.are the Pakistan Taliban, filmed recently in south Waziristan, very
:16:42. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:50.close to where we were with the TRANSLATION: A few of our Al-Qaeda
:16:50. > :16:53.companions have been martyred. We acknowledge this but lots of other
:16:53. > :16:58.Muslims have been killed too and will continue to die. It won't
:16:58. > :17:04.affect our activities. Even now drones are flying around us but can
:17:04. > :17:12.you see any sign of it on my face? No. Allah willing, we will respond
:17:12. > :17:15.to the enemy's strategy in our own way. The militants know the strikes
:17:15. > :17:25.which kill civilians too play into their hands, turning people against
:17:25. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:40.Anger and protests in the tribal areas have swelled, as more
:17:40. > :17:45.civilians have been killed by In south Waziristan, the army is
:17:45. > :17:48.holding the militants at bay but it is not secure here. The drone
:17:48. > :17:58.strikes affect the way the army is seen, increasingly as America's
:17:58. > :18:02.
:18:02. > :18:08.lackey. When you actually come here to south Waziristan, you see how
:18:08. > :18:11.poor, how scarred by war the people are. They want peace. They can't
:18:11. > :18:14.understand why they are plagued by drones which kill not only
:18:15. > :18:18.militants but many civilians as well. The army is building new
:18:18. > :18:21.market places. When the militants controlled this area they killed
:18:21. > :18:25.many tribal elders and destroyed these communities. Now, they are
:18:25. > :18:33.gradually coming back to life. But people are still afraid to
:18:33. > :18:36.congregate in public in some areas for fear of drones.
:18:36. > :18:42.TRANSLATION: Drones don't hit a specific target. Innocent people
:18:42. > :18:50.get murdered. In this area, there was a Jirga of 50-60 men my age,
:18:50. > :18:56.and they fired on them and killed them. The drone strike happened at
:18:56. > :19:00.a Jirga, a tribal gathering to settle a mining dispute. The attack
:19:00. > :19:05.happened in March last year at Dhatta Khel in north Waziristan.
:19:05. > :19:11.Daud Khan was one of 50 elders killed at the gathering. His son, a
:19:11. > :19:16.government health worker, is Noor Khan.
:19:16. > :19:20.TRANSLATION: My father was working for the benefit of the community.
:19:20. > :19:30.He was a counsellor, elected by the political administration. That was
:19:30. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:40.As they buried their dead in Dhatta Khel, the Americans claimed they
:19:40. > :19:44.had struck a group of militants. The Pakistan army disputed that.
:19:44. > :19:48.They said it was a gathering of peaceful citizens. Press reports
:19:48. > :19:55.said a small number of militants may have been present but this has
:19:56. > :19:59.never been confirmed. The strike has made everyone afraid.
:19:59. > :20:04.TRANSLATION: We cannot conduct our daily
:20:04. > :20:10.business. Or walk around freely. Our lives have become a prison.
:20:10. > :20:13.These drones are constantly flying overhead. We can't offer our
:20:13. > :20:20.prayers, we can't recite the Koran and we can't even have meetings for
:20:20. > :20:25.fear of drone attacks. Mr Khan and other drone victims are
:20:25. > :20:32.taking action in Pakistan's courts. They are being represented by a
:20:32. > :20:34.lawyer trained in Britain. Shezad Akbar says the Americans regard
:20:34. > :20:44.every adult male as a militant unless proven otherwise
:20:44. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :20:49.posthumously. If CIA believes you are acting suspiciously, it is safe
:20:49. > :20:53.to kill you in a tribal area, if you are a man aged between 16 are
:20:53. > :20:58.to 70 years old. In Mr Akbar's office are parts of
:20:58. > :21:01.missiles fired in drone strikes. The attack on the gathering is
:21:01. > :21:04.thought to be what the Americans call a "signature strike", against
:21:04. > :21:14.activity that looks suspicious like men having a meeting, armed as they
:21:14. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:21.traditionally are in the tribal areas. This is what the strike was
:21:21. > :21:28.about. There was no intended target. They did not have any specific name
:21:28. > :21:31.to go after. There was no name disclosed before or after.
:21:31. > :21:37.Relatives of those killed at the gathering are meeting Mr Akbar to
:21:37. > :21:47.discuss taking the drones issue to the British courts.
:21:47. > :21:52.
:21:52. > :21:55.The victims argue British intelligence is complicit in the
:21:55. > :21:59.strikes because they share information with the Americans used
:21:59. > :22:05.in targeting. Mr Khan has high hopes for British justice for his
:22:05. > :22:08.father. TRANSLATION:
:22:08. > :22:12.All the courts in the world, for example in Pakistan and the United
:22:12. > :22:14.States, are under pressure and control from governments. But the
:22:14. > :22:21.courts in Britain are independent and whatever judgement is delivered
:22:21. > :22:24.is reached in a just manner. The drone strikes are piling the
:22:25. > :22:29.pressure on the government in Islamabad. Pakistan has always
:22:29. > :22:34.claimed the US is acting alone and illegally. But militants have
:22:34. > :22:36.killed 50,000 Pakistanis too. And in the first five years of drone
:22:36. > :22:46.strikes, Pakistan's intelligence service was involved with America
:22:46. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:54.in the targeting. We found that there Pakistanis were playing games
:22:54. > :23:00.with that, that they were in fact warning people they had agreed
:23:01. > :23:04.could be targets. The US decided we were going to do it ourselves and
:23:04. > :23:06.not tell the Pakistanis. Now they still had permission for us to use
:23:06. > :23:10.the airspace. Pakistanis could close down the airspace any time
:23:10. > :23:12.they want and we can't fly. So you are saying by allowing the airspace
:23:13. > :23:15.to be open, they are tacitly acknowledging it and allowing it?
:23:15. > :23:17.Right, right. We consider drone strikes to be
:23:17. > :23:20.illegal, we consider them against international law and we consider
:23:20. > :23:23.them also to be very counter- productive. Because of drone
:23:23. > :23:26.strikes, there is collateral damage. As civilians, children lose their
:23:26. > :23:30.lives then the battle for hearts and minds is immediately lost so
:23:30. > :23:35.our claim is that if drones get you one target or the other, that might
:23:35. > :23:45.mean winning one battle or two. But you are losing the losing the war
:23:45. > :23:50.because of that. The government has strongly defend the strikes in
:23:50. > :23:53.parliament,... But a US diplomatic cable from 2008
:23:53. > :24:03.exposed on Wikileaks revealed what Pakistan's then prime minister said
:24:03. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:11.What I can tell you without any doubt, 100% confidence, is that in
:24:11. > :24:14.my term as foreign minister I have seen no functionary of the
:24:14. > :24:16.government of Pakistan, be it the President, be it Prime Minister be
:24:16. > :24:23.it any armed personnel, intelligence personnel or anyone
:24:23. > :24:28.from the diplomatic office, ever But why doesn't Pakistan close its
:24:28. > :24:32.airspace if it doesn't want drone strikes to happen? We are in
:24:32. > :24:35.serious dialogue with the US to make sure they don't happen. And we
:24:35. > :24:39.are quite sure that we should be able to reach common ground on this.
:24:39. > :24:46.Would you close you airspace? are doing whatever we can to make
:24:46. > :24:50.sure drone strikes do not happen in So from Pakistan's point of view,
:24:50. > :24:53.they have the advantages of being able to kick America in the shins
:24:53. > :25:00.for doing it and the advantages of having some of their own enemies
:25:00. > :25:04.killed with it. The government had warned Imran
:25:04. > :25:09.Khan not to hold his rally. On day two as the protestors approached
:25:09. > :25:12.south Waziristan, the police and army were out in force. There were
:25:12. > :25:20.reports the Taliban had sent squads of suicide bombers to attack the
:25:20. > :25:24.convoy. But Imran Khan dismissed it as a political ploy. I don't think
:25:24. > :25:31.the Taliban are going to bomb us because there is too much popular
:25:31. > :25:35.support. My neck danger, if any, is from the government itself -- our
:25:35. > :25:38.danger. Because the government is get and the government is to faced.
:25:38. > :25:42.The rally was making headlines, raising questions. Why did Pakistan
:25:42. > :25:47.allow its sovereignty to be violated? The police began to block
:25:47. > :25:56.the road with containers. As the warnings of militant attacks grew
:25:56. > :26:04.more alarming, the organisers decided to call a halt. In the end,
:26:04. > :26:08.they didn't make it to Waziristan but they had made their point.
:26:08. > :26:18.are here with you to make sure you get justice and to make sure there
:26:18. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:25.are... No more drones! No more drones! No more drones! No more
:26:25. > :26:29.drones! Imran Khan's convoy had focused the world's attention on US
:26:29. > :26:35.drone strikes. Were they really the way to defeat militancy in
:26:35. > :26:39.Pakistan? The only solution, the key to peace, lies in getting the
:26:39. > :26:44.people of tribal area to our side, winning hearts and minds and we win
:26:44. > :26:47.the war. There is no military solution. Even some Americans once
:26:47. > :26:54.closely involved in the drone war in Pakistan believe its time to
:26:54. > :26:58.reassess it. The -- it is time. think the Pakistanis should be
:26:58. > :27:03.invited to put their hand on the trigger just the way we have it, so
:27:03. > :27:06.both sides. And I think the drone programme ought to be a military
:27:06. > :27:09.programme, not an intelligence programme. So both sides
:27:09. > :27:12.acknowledge the programme, both sides say they making the decisions
:27:12. > :27:14.on it together and that it is serving the interests of both
:27:14. > :27:17.countries. The family who lost their
:27:17. > :27:24.grandmother in a drone strike are leaving Islamabad and going back to
:27:24. > :27:27.Waziristan. They can't understand why America spends billions on
:27:27. > :27:34.drones instead of investing more in development in the tribal areas to
:27:34. > :27:38.combat militancy. TRANSLATION: We are fed up with
:27:38. > :27:41.America and the rest of the world. This is unjust. We are poor,
:27:41. > :27:49.deprived people and instead of shedding blood, they should build
:27:49. > :27:52.schools and educate our children. In the long term, the Obama
:27:52. > :27:59.administration knows they have to address the biggest question - are
:27:59. > :28:03.drone strikes in Pakistan really making the West any safer? If we
:28:03. > :28:07.keep on doing what we're doing, we are going to have basically the
:28:07. > :28:10.same result and we'll be in the same business in ten years. Killing
:28:10. > :28:17.less experienced but nonetheless moving forward to fill the ranks
:28:17. > :28:21.Al-Qaeda members and generating resentment. I think we have run the
:28:21. > :28:27.course of what we can accomplish with what we are doing.
:28:27. > :28:29.Attacks have dropped in recent months. But just after we left,
:28:29. > :28:32.Obama's 300th drone strike reportedly killed an Al-Qaeda
:28:32. > :28:42.militant and three others near where we had been in south
:28:42. > :28:43.