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AG defends killing of home-grown terrorist threats

Speech cites narrow limits of Awlaki case

By Nedra Pickler

 |  Associated Press  

  March 05, 2012

Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat ‘‘is among the gravest that government leaders can face,’’ but justified lethal action as legal and sometimes necessary in the war on terror.

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