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           US: One Drone Victim Was Intent on Anti-American Terrorism

   U.S. law enforcement officials say that one of the four Americans it
   now acknowledges killing in drone strikes was a young man who left the
   country for Pakistan intent on engaging in violent terrorism against
   the United States.
   Jude Kenan Mohammad had not been previously identified in news media
   reports as being killed by a U.S. drone attack, unlike three other
   Americans the government on Wednesday formally acknowledged killing
   since 2009.
   Authorities say that Mohammad left the U.S. in late 2008 and was killed
   at age 23 by a CIA drone strike on a compound in Pakistan in late 2011.
   At the time, he was with other insurgents in a region controlled by
   extremists, but the U.S. said he was not directly targeted in the drone
   attack.
   Authorities say he was the son of a Pakistani father and an American
   mother and spent time in both countries during his formative years.
   U.S. news agencies say he lived in the state of North Carolina before
   heading to Pakistan. He attended school in the state capital of Raleigh
   but also fell under the influence of a convert to Islam who taught him
   a radical version of the religion.
   U.S. authorities charged him in 2009 with being part of a plot to bomb
   a Marine Corps base in Virginia.
   The U.S. disclosed the names of the Americans it has killed overseas in
   the drone attacks as President Barack Obama prepared to give a major
   speech on national security issues on Thursday.
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