"In 2013 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch claimed that American drone strikes in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, in which many civilians died, may have been disproportionate—a claim that Barack Obama, then America’s president, denied, saying that in each case the potential loss of civilian life had been carefully weighed."

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