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Pakistan

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In a Washington Post story about U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Peter Bergen, director of the National Security Studies Program, offers analysis on the targets of the campaign, noting that 94 percent of last year's fatalities were lower-level militants.

Bergen and research fellow Katherine Tiedemann have been tracking deaths from drone strikes in Pakistan. Their data and analysis on the strikes from 2004 to 2011 is available here.

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Books From New America

Fighting for DarfurIn her book Fighting for Darfur, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow Rebecca Hamilton chronicles the six-year grassroots campaign to draw global attention to the plight of Darfur's people. She not only details how advocacy for Darfur was an exuberant, multibillion-dollar effort, but goes on to reveal the impact of ordinary people’s fierce determination to uphold the mantra of “never again.”