Mr Biden said: “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
US President Joe Biden said the country would seek retribution for the attacks Thursday in Afghanistan that killed 83 people, including 13 American American service members and dozens of Afghans. Mr Biden also promised to continue the ongoing evacuation efforts.
As an already fraught humanitarian and political crisis worsened, during remarks Thursday evening at the White House, Mr Biden said: “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
Though he faced calls from some lawmakers to extend the mission in Afghanistan, the US President planned to stick with his Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline, according to advisers.
He had instructed his military commanders to develop response plans to the attack, including initiatives to strike assets, leadership and facilities of ISIS-K, Mr Biden said. Pentagon has attributed Thursday’s deadly explosions to ISIS-K, the Afghan affiliate of Islamic State.
Mr Biden said that the U.S. evacuation effort will move forward, though he called the situation on the ground volatile. He said the effort wouldn’t cease, even after troops are withdrawn, until any American who wants to get out was able to. He also said the U.S. would work to extract Afghan allies, but he noted the difficulty of guaranteeing that they all could be evacuated.
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