Graphs of Death: US Drone Strikes Visualized (Pegg)

Juan Cole 06/28/2012

David Pegg writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism

These graphs accurately reflect the Bureau’s data on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan to the most recent strike.

They are designed to illustrate in the simplest possible way key statistical data from our investigation. Click on a graph to enlarge.

You are free to download and to reproduce them, provided the Bureau is credited.

A chart illustrating minimum total casualties, minimum reported civilian casualties and minimum casualties aged under 18.

This graph illustrates the minimum reported civilians killed in drone strikes year by year.

This graph shows the total number of people reportedly killed in CIA drone strikes.

This graph shows the tally of total drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 – 2012.

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page