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December 22, 2010

Holder: U.S. Seeks to "Neutralize" U.S.-born Cleric 
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Attorney General Eric Holder has publicly said the United States wants
to neutralize the Yemen-based Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is said
to be the first U.S. citizen added to a CIA list of targets for capture
or killing. During an interview on ABC, Holder was asked how much of a
threat al-Awlaki posed.

Eric Holder: "He would be on the same list with bin Laden. He's up
there. I don't know whether he's one, two, three, four. I don't know.
But he's certainly on the list of the people who worry me the most."

Pierre Thomas: "Does the U.S. have a preference, in terms of
Awlaki—dead, captured or prosecuted?"

Holder: "Well, we certainly want to neutralize him. And we will do
whatever we can in order to do that."



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