President Biden arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday to meet with the families of three U.S. soldiers killed by Iranian-backed militants in Jordan, ahead of the ceremonial return of their bodies.
The 81-year-old Biden spoke by phone and attended with relatives of the 13 Americans killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, after the president tried to comfort them. The White House announced that they had asked if they would like it. He checked his watch, talked about his own son Beau dying of cancer, then turned sideways.
Sergeant William Jerome Rivers, 46, Special Forces. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, Spc. On January 28, a drone attack on a remote outpost called Tower 22 near the Syrian border killed Breonna Alexandria Moffett, 23, and injured more than 40 U.S. service members.
Biden told reporters Tuesday that the U.S. response to the attack was determined to be “yes,” but the U.S. military has not yet announced any retaliatory strikes.
Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi organization, is a possible perpetrator. Said It is scheduled to halt attacks on U.S. forces on Tuesday.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday that Iraq’s Islamic Resistance Movement affiliate group was ultimately responsible for the deadly attack.
The deaths in Jordan follow a series of operations by Iranian proxies off the coast of Iraq, Syria and Yemen, in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas.
Last month, Biden ordered U.S. airstrikes against the Houthis, who control densely populated areas of Yemen, after Iranian-backed groups repeatedly attacked commercial ships in the Red Sea.
Hamas terrorists killed around 1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7 and took more than 200 hostages to the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state invaded to oust Hamas from power in the region. caused.
