As the Obama administration prepares to publish a long-delayed accounting of how many militants and noncombatant civilians it has killed since 2009, its statistics may be defined as much by what is left out as by what is included.

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The totals will almost inevitably be challenged by independent groups that keep their own tallies and for years have charged that the administration undercounts civilan death caused by drone strikes.

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