U.S. Strike Iranian-Backed Militia in Iraq After Troops Injured in Drone Attack

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U.S. Strike Iranian-Backed Militia in Iraq After Troops Injured in Drone Attack
.By Aamer Madhani & Zeke Miller
 

President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.

National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack that utilized a one-way attack drone

Biden, who is spending Christmas at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, was alerted about the attack by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan shortly after it occurred on Monday and ordered the Pentagon and his top national security aides to prepare response options to the attack on an air base used by American troops in Erbil.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/12/26/us_strike_iranian-backed_militia_in_iraq_troops_injured_in_drone_attack_1001071.html

[Timber Rattler]

One of our people was critically injured, and this is what we get from Biden:

The U.S. strikes were carried out at about 4:45 a.m. on Tuesday in Iraq, less than 13 hours after the U.S. personnel were attacked. According to U.S. Central Command, the retaliatory strikes on the three sites, “destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of Kataib Hezbollah militants.”

“The President places no higher priority than the protection of American personnel serving in harm’s way,” Watson said. “The United States will act at a time and in a manner of our choosing should these attacks continue.”

They don't know what they did...probably blew up some empty tents or a watering hole.