- President Joe
Biden on Thursday said he ordered a retaliatory strike to be carried out on ISIS-K. - He said the US was working on plans to strike the group's assets, leadership, and facilities.
- He added that the US would respond with "force and precision" at its own time.
President Joe Biden $4 that he had ordered US military commanders to develop plans for a retaliatory strike against $4 the Islamic State's Afghan affiliate, which claimed responsibility for the $4.
Biden said the US military would be developing operational plans to "strike ISIS-K assets, leadership, and facilities" after a string of suicide bombings earlier Thursday outside the Kabul airport that $4 as well as dozens of Afghans seeking airlifts out of the country.
"We will respond with force and precision in our time, at a place we choose, in a manner of our choosing," Biden said in a televised $4.
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In the same speech, Biden vowed to defend the interests of Americans with "every measure" of his command.
"We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay," $4.
$4 noted that Biden's remarks from the East Wing echoed President George W. Bush's comments in the days following the September 11, 2001, attacks, which prompted the US to invade
"This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others - it will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing," $4.
Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the commander of US Central Command, also $4 that the threat from the Afghan ISIS affiliate was "extremely real" and that attacks were likely to continue.
An official who wished to remain anonymous told the $4 that at least 95 Afghans were killed in Thursday's bombings.
The $4 reported that an additional 120 to 140 people were injured.