White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, joined by NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, holds a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. ( Photo by Oliver Contreras)

The White House has identified the “umbrella group: responsible for the drone attack that resulted in the deaths of three American service members in Jordan: Sgt. William Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Sgt. Kennedy Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Sgt. Breonna Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia.

“We believe that the attack in Jordan was planned, resourced and facilitated by an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which contains multiple groups including Kata’ib Hezbollah,” NSC spokesman John Kirby announced.

He added, “This certainly has the earmarks of the kinds of things that Kata’ib Hezbollah does. The attribution that that our intelligence community is comfortable with is that this was done by the umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.”

The United States is going to respond, but Kirby said “on our own time on our own schedule.”

Biden told reporters on Tuesday morning that he has made a decision to respond to the attack in Jordan.

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