“The state of affairs on the bottom continues to be extraordinarily harmful,” Joe Biden stated.
Washington:
US army commanders consider that one other terror assault just like the lethal suicide bombing at Kabul airport is “extremely possible within the subsequent 24-36 hours,” President Joe Biden warned Saturday.
After a briefing from his nationwide safety crew, Biden stated in an announcement {that a} US drone strike focusing on the Islamic State-Khorasan group, which claimed accountability for Thursday’s carnage on the airport, was “not the final.”
“The state of affairs on the bottom continues to be extraordinarily harmful, and the specter of terrorist assaults on the airport stays excessive. Our commanders knowledgeable me that an assault is very possible within the subsequent 24-36 hours,” Biden stated.
Scores of Afghan civilians had been killed within the Kabul bombing Thursday, together with 13 US troops — a number of of them born across the time US army operations in Afghanistan started 20 years in the past.
The Pentagon stated Saturday it had killed two “excessive profile” targets — logistics specialists for the jihadist group — and wounded one other in a drone strike in jap Afghanistan in retaliation for the suicide bombing.
No civilians had been harm within the assault, Main Common Hank Taylor advised a information convention in Washington.
“The truth that two of those people are not strolling on the face of the Earth, that is factor,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby stated.
US troops have been scrambling in harmful and chaotic situations to finish an enormous evacuation operation from the Kabul airport by an August 31 deadline.
Biden has pledged to stay to the agreed cut-off and had vowed to punish these answerable for the suicide blast. He stated Saturday that the drone assault wouldn’t be the final.
“We’ll proceed to seek out any individual concerned in that heinous assault and make them pay,” he stated. “Each time anybody seeks to hurt the USA or assault our troops, we’ll reply. That can by no means be doubtful.”
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