The Year of the Drone | NewAmerica.net*Count is more than the number of strikes in some cases because some targets fell into multiple categories. **Saad bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden’s sons, was reported killed by a drone in 2009 sometime before July 22, 2009, but it’s unknown exactly when, so he is included in the targeting as al Qaeda but not in one of the individual entries in 2009. [Author note: Saad bin Laden was reported al
