2024-01-29 16:42:00
Biden is “studying” response options following deadly attack on military in Jordan, White House says
US President Joe Biden attends a Reproductive Health Task Force meeting at the White House on January 22, 2024 in Washington. (Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden and his national security team are weighing response options following three US service members were killed and dozens more injured in Jordan, the White House said Monday morning.
National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told CNN’s Phil Mattingly that the president is “working through ‘response options’ at this time.”
“He had a good meeting yesterday with the national security team. He still has decision space ahead of them and they will certainly get in front of that,” Kirby said.
As for which group is responsible for the attack, Kirby said the administration is still “studying attribution and which group was specifically responsible for this.”
“I think we have a pretty good idea,” Kirby said, “and we certainly believe that the group was supported by Kata’ib Hezbollah, which is one of the main IRGC-backed groups in Iraq and Syria that have been carrying out carried out so many of these attacks once morest our troops in our facilities.
Kirby also said that although this was the first deadly attack once morest US military personnel in the region since the October 7 attacks, it is far from the first attempt.
“This one had lethal consequences in ways that the previous ones did not, but that does not mean that the intent of the previous attacks was not also lethal, just that we were able to defeat them,” he said.
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