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Pentagon warns ‘there will be consequences’ for killing of US soldiers as Biden decides on plan

Source: AP

The Pentagon has announced that “there will be consequences” for the deadly drone attack on a US base in Jordan that killed three American soldiers over the weekend, just hours after President Joe Biden told reporters that he had decided on a plan to respond to the strike by Iranian-backed militias.

The Defense Department press secretary, US Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder, told reporters that the deaths of the three army soldiers and the injury to several dozen more merited a response in kind from

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