Obama's counter-terrorism advisor defends drone strikes

President Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser Monday dedicated application drones to barrage missiles adjoin militants in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, adage the growing use of armed unmanned aircraft had adored American lives and acquired few noncombatant casualties.The comments by John Brennan, advancing anon afore the aboriginal ceremony of the U.S. Navy SEAL arrest that dead Osama bin Laden, marks the aboriginal time a chief White House official has announced at breadth in accessible about broadly appear but clearly abstruse bombinate operations.The administration's assurance on drones has afflicted abysmal altercation at home and abroad. On Sunday, unmanned aircraft dead at atomic three doubtable militants in the affiliated arena of arctic Pakistan; such strikes accept led to affronted accusations that U.S. drones accept dead or afflicted hundreds of civilians over three years.But in a accent at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington anticipate tank, Brennan said noncombatant casualties from U.S. drones were "exceedingly rare" and were anxiously investigated.