President Biden warns that another attack on the Kabul airport is 'highly likely' and promises to issue a second retaliatory strike against the terrorists responsible for Thursday's bombing.
"This strike was not the last," Biden said."We will continue to hunt down any person involved in that heinous attack and make them pay. Whenever anyone seeks to harm the United States or attack our troops, we will respond."
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby declined to say on Saturday whether the ISIS-K members killed in Friday's strike were directly involved in the Kabul airport attack. "They were ISIS-K planners and facilitators. That's enough reason there alone," Kirby told reporters."I won't speak to the details of these individuals or what their specific roles might be."
Kirby also said that some military personnel had already begun to leave Afghanistan ahead of the Aug. 31 withdrawal. The thinning number of troops on the ground will likely lead to a slower pace in evacuations. As the mission winds down, Biden said U.S. military personnel were continuing to evacuate civilians"despite the treacherous situation in Kabul" and he was working with his national security team to"help people continue to leave Afghanistan after our military departs."
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