Biden vows revenge for Kabul attack that killed 13 U.S. troops
The attack outside the walls of Kabul's airport left scores of Afghans dead, and made for U.S. forces' deadliest day in Afghanistan in years.
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Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.
The attack outside the walls of Kabul's airport left scores of Afghans dead, and made for U.S. forces' deadliest day in Afghanistan in years.
"We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down, and make you pay," he said of the perpetrators of the Kabul attack.
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