{"id":459,"date":"2014-09-26T13:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2014-09-26T13:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:12:04","slug":"attorney-general-eric-holder-tells-nbc-news-that-khorasan-was-in-the-execution-stage-of-a-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2014\/09\/26\/attorney-general-eric-holder-tells-nbc-news-that-khorasan-was-in-the-execution-stage-of-a-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Eric Holder Tells NBC News That Khorasan Was \u201cIn The Execution Stage Of A Plot\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Holder to Pete Williams: \u201cThe bombing campaign that was begun was designed to disrupt and stop that plot that was imminent\u201d \u201cWe were concerned that they had gotten to the point where they were in a position to execute one plot that they had been working on for some time.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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September 26, 2014 — Attorney General Eric Holder sat down with NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams for an extensive, wide-ranging interview in Scranton, Pennsylvania\u00a0today. Holder address the threat of Khorasan, race in America and his decision to step down in which he said, \u201c’it’s the right time for me to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full NBCNews.com story is below and online here: http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1Cu30qP<\/a><\/p>\n

A portion of the interview will air tonight on \u201cNBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Holder: Khorasan Was ‘In The Execution Stage of a Plot’
\n<\/strong>By Carrie Dann, NBC News<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the al Qaeda-affiliated Khorasan Group was in the \u201cexecution phase of a plot\u201d when the U.S. and its allies targeted its members with air strikes early this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t get into specifics, but there is no question that the Khorasan Group had moved into the execution phase of a plot,\u201d he told NBC\u2019s Pete Williams in an interview Friday. \u201cAnd the bombing campaign that was begun was designed to disrupt and stop that plot that was imminent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until the Obama administration announced the missile strikes against it on Monday, most Americans had never heard of the mysterious organization, which is accused of plotting terrorist attacks on Western targets.<\/p>\n

But Holder indicated that intelligence officials have been closely tracking it for years \u2013 and that they had a fairly clear idea of what the terror cell\u2019s intended plot entailed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’d been following them for two years, and we have watched as they have progressed,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were concerned that they had gotten to the point where they were in a position to execute one plot that they had been working on for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Media contacts<\/h4>\n

For more information contact:
\nMaggie Steenland
\nNBC News
\n212-664-7874
\nmaggie.steenland@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n