总统乔·拜登对造成死亡的袭击者有一个清晰直接的信息恐怖袭击周四在哈米德·卡尔扎伊国际机场外，以及任何可能计划袭击的人。
“对那些发动这次袭击的人，以及任何希望美国受到伤害的人，知道这一点，我们不会原谅。我们不会忘记。我们会追捕你，让你付出代价，”他说。
拜登强调，他一再警告说，在阿富汗的撤离任务是危险的，但这将持续到本月底，即使威胁仍然存在。
“我们不会被恐怖分子吓倒。我们不会让他们停止我们的使命，”他补充道。“这些伊斯兰国恐怖分子不会赢。我们会救出那里的美国人。我们会救出我们的阿富汗盟友。我们的任务还会继续。美国不会被吓倒。”
在机场外的袭击中，13名美国军人死亡，18人受伤，其中包括几十名阿富汗人。拜登周四下午向全国发表讲话。
“艰难的一天，”拜登开始说。“今晚在喀布尔，众所周知，一场恐怖袭击——我们一直在谈论和担心的，情报部门评估过的，已经发生了——一个名为ISIS-K的组织发动的袭击夺走了在机场站岗的美国军人的生命，并严重打伤了其他几个人。”
“我已经忙了一整天，与华盛顿和五角大楼的军事指挥官保持着持续的联系阿富汗和多哈。我在华盛顿的指挥官们，在战场上，已经非常详细地讨论过这个问题，到目前为止，你们已经有机会和一些人谈过了，”他对记者说当地的局势仍在发展，我也在不断更新。"
五角大楼官员早些时候证实，两名ISIS自杀式炸弹袭击者在喀布尔机场的艾比门附近引爆，当时美国海军陆战队正在对潜在的撤离者进行安全检查，并在距离艾比门不远的附近巴伦酒店附近引爆。
共和国总统拜登:“我们有些理智...这些勇敢英雄的家人今天的感受。你会有这种感觉，就像你被吸进了胸腔中央的黑洞。没有出路。我为你心痛。”https://t.co/zkMPxZsfPnpic.twitter.com/6RdZmCnigg
—美国广播公司新闻(@美国广播公司)2021年8月26日
美国官员后来说，被打死的13名美国军人中，大多数是海军陆战队队员，至少有一名是海军医院医护兵，一名是陆军士兵。
拜登在白宫说:“这些献出生命的美国军人，这是一个过度使用的词，但在这里是恰当的，他们是英雄。“为拯救他人生命而从事危险、无私使命的英雄。”
“他们是地球上最勇敢、最有能力、最无私的军队的一部分。他们是我所说的美国脊梁的一部分。他们是美国的脊梁。这个国家能提供的最好的东西，”他补充道。
总统说，他和第一夫人吉尔·拜登对阿富汗家庭失去亲人，包括年幼的孩子感到“愤怒和心碎”，他称这是一次“恶毒的攻击”，将会遭到“武力和精确的打击。”
“我们不会被恐怖分子吓倒。我们不会让他们停止我们的使命。我们将继续撤离。我还命令我的指挥官制定行动计划，打击ISIS-K的资产、领导层和设施，”他说。
突破:压力。拜登说，他已经命令他的指挥官“制定打击ISIS-K资产、领导层和设施的行动计划。”“我们将在我们的时间、我们选择的地点和我们选择的时刻，以武力和精准做出回应。”https://t.co/aVzjnzGos5pic.twitter.com/kTw6VbCCSA
—美国广播公司新闻(@美国广播公司)2021年8月26日
拜登要求加入默哀行列，“为所有那些穿制服和不穿制服的人，无论是军人还是平民，他们都付出了最后的全部奉献。”
然后，他在东厅接受了记者的六个问题。
当被问及是否会向阿富汗增派部队时，拜登表示，他预计不需要更多的地面部队，但美国可以在没有大规模军事行动的情况下对ISIS-K实施报复性打击。
拜登说:“我已经指示军方，无论他们需要什么，如果他们需要额外的武力，我都会同意。
虽然说他“对最近发生的所有事情负有根本责任”，但总统也为他在本月底之前撤军的决定进行了辩护。
“我从来不认为我们应该牺牲美国人的生命来试图在阿富汗建立一个民主政府，这个国家在其整个历史上从未成为一个统一的国家，”拜登在离开东厅前说。“女士们，先生们，是时候结束20年的战争了。”
ISIS-KISIS在阿富汗的分支机构，声称对周四下午的袭击负责。此前几天，拜登从白宫发出警告，称被称为“塔利班的死敌”的恐怖组织对地面安全构成威胁
他当时说:“我们在地面上的每一天都是另一天，我们知道ISIS-K正在寻求以机场为目标，袭击美国和盟军以及无辜平民。
周四是十多年来美军在阿富汗死亡人数最多的一天，也是自2020年2月以来美军首次在阿富汗死亡。
Biden vows retribution on terrorists who killed 13 US service members in Kabul
PresidentJoe Bidenhad a clear and directed message for the assailants responsible for the deadlyterror attackoutside of Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, and for anyone else who might be planning an attack.
"To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this, we will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay," he said.
Biden underscored that he has repeatedly warned that the evacuation mission in Afghanistan was a dangerous one -- but that it will continue until the end of the month, even as threats persist.
"We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will not let them stop our mission," he added. "These ISIS terrorists will not win. We will rescue the Americans in there. We will get our Afghan allies out. And our mission will go on. America will not be intimidated."
Thirteen American service members were killed and 18 wounded, among scores of Afghan casualties in the attack outside the airport. Biden addressed the nation Thursday afternoon.
"A tough day," Biden began. "This evening in Kabul, as you all know, a terrorist attack -- that we've been talking about and worried about, that the intelligence community has assessed, has undertaken -- an attack by a group known as ISIS-K took the lives of American service members standing guard at the airport and wounded several others seriously."
"I've been engaged all day, in constant contact with the military commanders here in Washington and the Pentagon, as well inAfghanistanand Doha. And my commanders in Washington, in the field, have been on this with great detail, and you've had a chance to speak to some so far," he said to reporters. "The situation on the ground is still evolving, and I'm constantly being updated."
Pentagon officials confirmed earlier that two ISIS suicide bombers detonated in the vicinity of the Abbey Gate at the airport in Kabul, where U.S. Marines were conducting security checks of potential evacuees, and in the vicinity of the nearby Baron Hotel, a short distance from the Abbey Gate.
Pres. Biden: "We have some sense...what the families of these brave heroes are feeling today. 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."https://t.co/zkMPxZsfPnpic.twitter.com/6RdZmCnigg
— ABC News (@ABC)August 26, 2021
U.S. officials said later that most of the 13 U.S. military service members killed were Marines and at least one was a Navy hospital corpsman, or medic, and one an Army soldier.
"These American service members who gave their lives, that's an overused word, but it's appropriate here, were heroes," Biden said from the White House. "Heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others."
"They were part of the bravest, most capable, the most selfless military on the face of the Earth. And they were part of, simply what I call the backbone of America. They are the spine of America. The best the country has to offer," he added.
The president said that he and first lady Jill Biden are "outraged as well as heartbroken" for Afghan families who lost loved ones, including small children, in what he called a "vicious attack" that will be met with "force and precision."
"We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will not let them stop our mission. We will continue the evacuation. I've also ordered my commanders to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-K assets, leadership and facilities," he said.
BREAKING: Pres. Biden says he's ordered his commanders "to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-K assets, leadership and facilities.""We will respond with force and precision at our time, at the place we choose and the moment of our choosing."https://t.co/aVzjnzGos5pic.twitter.com/kTw6VbCCSA
— ABC News (@ABC)August 26, 2021
Biden asked to be joined in a moment of silence "for all those in uniform and out of uniform -- military and civilian -- who have given the last full measure of devotion."
He then took six questions from reporters in the East Room.
Asked whether he would send additional troops to Afghanistan, Biden said he did not anticipate needing more boots on-the-ground but that the U.S. can conduct retaliatory strikes against ISIS-K without large military operations.
"I've instructed the military, whatever they need, if they need additional force, I will grant it," Biden said.
While saying that he bears "responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened of late," the president also defended his decision to withdraw troops by the end of the month.
"I have never been of the view that we should be sacrificing American lives to try to establish a democratic government in Afghanistan, a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country," Biden said just before leaving the East Room. "Ladies and gentlemen, it was time to end a 20-year war."
ISIS-K, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, claimed credit for the attack Thursday afternoon. It comes days after Biden warned from the White House of on-the-ground security threats from the terrorist group known as the "sworn enemy of the Taliban."
"Every day we're on the ground is another day we know that ISIS-K is seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and allied forces and innocent civilians," he said at the time.
Thursday marks the deadliest day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan in more than a decade and the first U.S. military death in Afghanistan since Feb. 2020.
