Senator said 4,700 died in Americans drones strikes

Washington: U.S. senator said an estimated 4,700 people, including some civilians, controversial U.S. covert drone war killed in the bombing raids, local media said Wednesday.

The first legislative or representative of any government drone attack death of the extrajudicial killings condemned by rights groups as indicated by the total number.




But Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch advocate of drone raid, revealed that a large number of casualties in some independent estimates cited above.

Said, 'We killed 4,700, Graham, a local website covering small towns in South Carolina Easley in Easley patch, was told by the.

"Sometimes you killed innocent people, and I hate it, but we are at war, and we had some very senior members of al-Qaeda is," Graham told Easley Rotary Club.

Graham's office did not dispute his remarks to the report but suggested that any government, had not divulged the secret government statistics.

A spokesman told AFP that the senator "is data that has been reported publicly and on cable news quoted promotion." This comment was unprecedented, as some U.S. officials have hinted in estimates of civilian casualties is never total body count.

Micah Zenko, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations said that this is the first time a U.S. official has put the total number, ".

There is no official estimate of the death toll, it would be classified as secret, the secret law can likely break up Graham.



London-based Bureau of journalism by Graham cited statistics from a number of high-end matches. That Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia have been killed in drone strike number is between 3,072 and 4,756.

Washington-based New America Foundation, says that since 2004 there have been 350 U.S. drone attacks, during Barack Obama's presidency is the highest of them. Foundation 261 killed and 305 civilians were killed between 3,293 and 1,963 people, with the number of estimates.

U.S. intelligence agencies and the White House attacks, which are officially classified as refused to disclose details about, but officials suggested that few if any civilians were accidentally As is killed.

The CIA, John Brennan, to lead to candidate Senator Dianne Feinstein said at a hearing this month that he understood that the number of civilians were killed, "a digit."

Confidential and lawmakers and rights advocates who have questioned the legality of drone strikes despite criticism, Graham said Obama unmanned, robotic aircraft depends defended.

Graham said: "It is a weapon used,". "This is a strategic weapon. A drone unmanned aerial vehicle, one that is armed."

Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere in covert CIA drone attacks are attacks by monitoring, while a bomb blast in Afghanistan under U.S. military authority runs through drone in the autumn and are not cloaked in secrecy are.

Obama administration insisted that "targeted killings" but the U.S. can not be caught conspiring against invading "a last resort" is.

Opponents, however, extrajudicial killings by the Congress or the courts under the supervision of the local population and reduce the amount of hatred sown drones.

Obama acknowledged for the first time this month that the U.S. only word that his foreign powers waging a covert drone war was misusing more than I need.