Biden directs airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups after three US troops wounded in attack
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
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President Joe Biden directed airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups after three US troops were wounded in an attack. USA TODAY Pentagon Correspondent Tom Vanden Brook has the latest.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, December 27th, 2023. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we have the latest from the Middle East where President Joe Biden directed |
| 0:26.3 | airstrikes on Iranian-backed groups. Plus officials are investigating threats |
| 0:30.7 | against Colorado Supreme Court justices after their |
| 0:33.4 | Trump ruling and we look at how airlines are destroying thousands of |
| 0:37.1 | disability devices every year. |
| 0:40.3 | President Joe Biden directed airstrikes in Iraq this week against Iranian-backed groups |
| 0:46.7 | after three United States service members were wounded by a one-way attack drone on Monday |
| 0:51.9 | at the Erbil Air Base. I spoke with USA Today Pentagon |
| 0:55.0 | correspondent Tom Vandenbrooke for more. Tom thanks for hopping on. |
| 0:58.8 | Taylor, good to be here. So Tom, what happened with this drone attack on U.S. service members and who's responsible? |
| 1:05.4 | There have been probably close to 80 of these sorts of attacks since October 7th when |
| 1:11.7 | Hamas attacked Israel. |
| 1:13.0 | And they're principally done by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. |
| 1:19.0 | And they're using drones that are gerry-rigged with explosives to fly into bases where US trips are located in both Iraq and Syria. |
| 1:27.0 | And do we know anything about the status of these soldiers as of now, Tom Tom how severe were their injuries? |
| 1:33.4 | Well there was one soldier if it was a soldier we're not certainly exactly who it was you |
| 1:37.7 | know what Branch to Service was critically injured by this but I am hearing that |
| 1:41.6 | this soldiers expected to survive. Others were injured but have returned to Duke. |
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