(CNSNews.com) - President Trump sent a message to the Islamic State on Friday:



In two tweets, the president said: "ISIS just claimed the Degenerate Animal who killed, and so badly wounded, the wonderful people on the West Side, was 'their soldier.' Based on that, the Military has hit ISIS 'much harder' over the last two days. They will pay a big price for every attack on us!"



Press reports on Friday said ISIS, in its weekly Al-Naba newspaper, described the Uzbek "attacker" as "one of the caliphate's soldiers."

As President Trump departed for his Asian trip on Friday, he amplified on his remarks about hitting ISIS harder:

"What we're doing is, every time we're attacked, from this point forward..we are hitting them ten times harder. So when we have an animal do an attack like he did the other day on the west side of Manhattan, we are hitting them ten times harder.

"They claimed him as a soldier -- good luck. Every time they hit us, we know it's ISIS, we hit them like you folks won't believe."

Washington has warned US citizens based in Iraq against looming terror attacks, the Baghdad Post reported Thursday.

Meanwhile, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov is recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen following his rampage with a rental truck. He killed eight people on a lower Manhattan bike and pedestrian path and injured eleven others on Tuesday.



According to the FBI complaint, the terrorist was inspired by watching Islamic State videos on his cellphone.