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March 5, 2012

Eric Holder to Defend Targeted Killings of U.S. Citizens 
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Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to offer a legal defense today
of Obama's campaign to assassinate U.S. citizens overseas who have
alleged ties to al-Qaeda. Holder's speech comes five months after a U.S.
drone killed the U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Another
drone in Yemen later killed al-Awlaki's teenage son, also a U.S.
citizen.



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