U.S President Joe Biden, his strong voice breaking with emotion, vowed on Thursday the United States would hunt down those responsible for twin explosions at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan and said he had asked the Pentagon to develop plans to strike back at them.
“To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm notice, we will not forgive, we will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay. I will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command,” Biden told before at the White House on Thursday.
Biden went on to say, “As you all know, the terrorist attacks that we've been talking about and worried about within the intelligence community, was an undertaking attack by a group known as ISIS-K,” Adding that “They took the lives of American service members standing guard at the airport and wounded several others seriously. They also wounded, a number of civilians, and civilians were killed as well."
In the wake of the incident, US Vice President Kamala Harris canceled her plan to campaign for California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsroom, who is facing a recall election on Sept. 14, on her way home from a trip to Asia, and will instead return to Washington, as per reports.
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