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“How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.”

Quote by Richard Engel

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Richard Engel is an American journalist born on September 16, 1973. He is known for his reporting in war zones and in-depth investigations, having won multiple journalism awards. more

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