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四名美国公民死于无人机袭击 The US attorney general has acknowledged four US citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2011. 美国司法部长承认，2011年以来已有四名美国公民死于无人机袭击。 ? In a letter to the Senate judiciary committee, Eric Holder defended the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. ? But he said Awlakis 16-year-old son as well as two other individuals were not specifically targeted by the US. ? The disclosure comes as President Barack Obama prepares to make a speech on counter-terrorism and the drone programme on Thursday. ? A White House official quoted by Reuters said the US president would discuss why the use of drones was necessary, legal and just. ? The disclosure of the killings in Yemen and Pakistan marks the first formal public acknowledgement of the US citizen deaths in drone strikes. ? The president has directed me to disclose certain information that until now has been properly classified, Mr Holder wrote. ? Continuing threat ? Americas top law enforcement official defended the killing of Awlaki, whom he described as a senior operational leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). ? Mr Holder said Awlaki was intimately involved in detailed planning and putting in place plots against US persons. ? Mr Holder added officials appropriately concluded that [Awlaki] posed a continuing and imminent（迫近的） threat to the US. ? Awlaki, who was born in the US state of New Mexico, was killed in a missile strike from an unmanned plane in Yemen in September 2011. US officials announced his death but did not officially reveal he was killed by a drone. ? Samir Khan, a naturalised US citizen who produced an online magazine promoting al-Qaedas ideology, died in the same missile strike. ? Awlakis 16-year-old son Abdulrahman, who was born in Colorado, was killed in Yemen a month later. ? Jude Kenan Mohammad, a North Carolina resident with a Pakistani father and an American-born mother, was arrested in Pakistan in 2008 after trying to enter a part of the country that is dominated by militant