Fewer than 2% of drone-strike victims in Pakistan are senior AQ

Fewer than 2 percent of drone-strike victims in Pakistan are senior al Qaeda leaders | FP Passport:

At least 265 of up to 482 people who the U.S. intelligence reports estimated the CIA killed during a 12-month period ending in September 2011 were not senior al Qaida leaders but instead were "assessed" as Afghan, Pakistani and unknown extremists. Drones killed only six top al Qaida leaders in those months, according to news media accounts.Forty-three of 95 drone strikes reviewed for that period hit groups other than al Qaida, including the Haqqani network, several Pakistani Taliban factions and the unidentified individuals described only as "foreign fighters" and "other militants." ...
At other times, the CIA killed people who only were suspected, associated with, or who probably belonged to militant groups.