Biden Addresses Nation, Vows Revenge on ISIS-K After Attacks: ‘We Will Hunt You Down and Make You Pay’

President Joe Biden delivered remarks at the White House on Thursday following the attacks which killed 12 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans outside the Abbey Gate leading into Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

During a Pentagon briefing CENTCOM Commander Kenneth McKenzie said ISIS-K, a branch of the Islamic State that operates in central Asia was behind the attack.

“To those who carried out this attack as well as anyone wishes America harm know this,” Biden said in his address to the nation. “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 also mentioned the loss of his son Beau, a veteran of the Iraq war, to brain cancer. He said that gives him and First Lady Jill Biden “some sense” of what the families of the fallen are grieving today.

“We have some sense like many of you do, what the families of these brave heroes are feeling today,” said the president. “You get this feeling like you’re being sucked into a black hole in the middle of your chest. There’s no way out. My heart aches for you, but I know this: We have a continuing obligation, a sacred obligation to all of you – families of those heroes. That obligation is not temporary. It lasts forever.”

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