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四名美国公民死于无人机袭击

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2013-05-23 08:52 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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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 Holder¹ defended the targeted killing² of Anwar al-Awlaki.

But he said Awlaki's 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 killings³ 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'

America's 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 detailed⁴ planning and putting in place plots against US persons".

Mr Holder added officials "appropriately concluded that [Awlaki] posed a continuing and imminent⁵（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-Qaeda's ideology⁶, died in the same missile strike.

Awlaki's 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 militants⁷ and is off-limits to foreigners.

He was charged with weapons possession and lacking the correct paperwork but disappeared after being granted bail⁸.

According to his acquaintances, Mohammad is thought to have died in a strike in November 2011 in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, the New York Times reported.

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1 holder
n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物
参考例句：
The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。 That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

2 killing
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。 Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 killings
谋杀( killing的名词复数 )；突然发大财，暴发
参考例句：
His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。 The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。

4 detailed
adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的
参考例句：
He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。 A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

5 imminent
adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的
参考例句：
The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。 The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。

6 ideology
n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识
参考例句：
The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。 The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

7 militants
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。 Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

8 bail
v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人
参考例句：
One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。 She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

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