Attorney general worries about home-grown terror

Published November 21, 2015

Attorney General Eric Holder, shown here Dec. 15 in Washington, said Dec. 21 his top list of concerns includes radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who as a U.S. citizen is familiar with the way America works and thinks. (AP2010)

Attorney General Eric Holder says he's worried about terrorist attacks on the U.S. by Americans. And high on his list of concerns is the threat posed by anti-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen believed to be hiding in Yemen.

Holder says al-Awlaki has a familiarity with the U.S. that terrorists usually lack. He says he puts him on the list of people who worry him the most, along with al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden, but adds, "Whether he's one, two, three, four, I don't know."

In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Holder said the terrorism threat is real and constant. He says he's concerned that the authorities may have missed a signal that an attack is coming.

He says Americans have to be prepared for "potentially bad news."

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