Update: 06/03/2012
- counter-terrorism - terrorism - USA
Top official defends killings of US-born terrorists
US Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) defended Monday the use of "lethal force" against American citizens posing terrorist threats, for the first time justifying the legality of targeting an American-born al-Qaeda operative in Yemen last year.
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