President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks concerning the bombings on the Kabul airport that killed at the least 12 US service members (Image: AP)

President Joe Biden in his first deal with on a terror assault exterior Kabul airport that killed at the least a dozen American service members stated the US will ‘search out’ these accountable.

‘We’re outraged in addition to heartbroken. To those that carried out this assault… know this: We is not going to forgive, we is not going to overlook,’ Biden stated, talking from the East Room of the White Home on Thursday afternoon.

‘We are going to hunt you down and make you pay.’

Biden known as the 12 US service members who died within the terror assault on Thursday ‘heroes’.

‘The lives we misplaced right this moment have been lives given within the service of liberty, service of safety, service of others. Within the service of others,’ he stated. ‘The fallen this present day are a part of an important, noble firm of heroes.’

Biden spoke a pair hours after Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, confirmed that 12 US service members have been killed and 15 others have been injured within the bombings exterior Kabul airport.

The president stated that the US’s evacuation mission wouldn’t be deterred by the phobia assault, reiterating McKenzie’s remarks from a Pentagon briefing earlier within the day.

‘America is not going to be intimidated,’ Biden stated.

The president acknowledged that ‘there are particular person teams of people — from ladies’s teams, NGOs and others — who’ve expressly indicated they wish to get out’.

Biden additionally appeared to, for the primary time, take accountability for the messy withdrawal and ensuing disaster in Afghanistan.

‘I bear accountability for essentially all that’s occurred of late,’ Biden stated.

Nevertheless, Biden instantly after additionally blamed former President Donald Trump for putting a take care of the Taliban to withdraw troops by a sure date.

‘You recognize in addition to I do this the previous president made a take care of the president,’ Biden stated.

Biden doubled down on sticking to the August 31 deadline to tug all US troops out of Afghanistan, which fell to the Taliban final week.

‘I’ve by no means been of the view that we must be sacrificing American lives to attempt to set up a democratic authorities in Afghanistan a rustic that has by no means as soon as in its total historical past been a united nation,’ Biden stated.

The president’s final phrases in his information convention have been: ‘Girls and gents, it was time to finish a 20-year conflict’.

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