Official speeches give false impression drone attacks are mostly targeting al-Qaeda members.
from The Atlantic
"The Obama Administration is deliberately misleading Americans about the drone war it is waging in Pakistan.
"To justify frequent drone strikes that regularly kill innocent people, risk serving as a terrorist recruiting tool, and terrorize whole communities understandably averse to drones buzzing above their homes, Obama Administration officials give the impression that al-Qaeda terrorists are the main targets. As it turns out, they haven't just helped hide the fact that the Bush Administration kicked off America's drone campaign in Pakistan by killing someone at the request of Pakistan's government — as Jonathan S Landay explains, Obama officials have misled us about their own behavior. …"