At least 13 U.S. service members killed in Kabul airport attack
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening on what's been one of the most tragic days in the two-decade long mission |
| 0:04.2 | in Afghanistan with the threat of more such days to come. |
| 0:08.2 | To go look at the flags on Capitol Hill and at the White House, they are at half staff |
| 0:12.0 | honoring the now 13 American service members, including 10 Marines who died with 18 more |
| 0:17.2 | wounded after two explosions at and near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. |
| 0:23.8 | An affiliate of the ISIS terror group in Afghanistan known as ISIS-K, his claim responsibility |
| 0:28.6 | for the attacks, were then 60 Afghans who also died at 140 wounded. |
| 0:34.0 | Short time ago President Biden spoke to the American people from the White House and |
| 0:37.0 | promised retribution. |
| 0:40.5 | To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm know this, |
| 0:49.2 | we will not forgive. |
| 0:52.5 | We will not forget. |
| 0:58.8 | We will hunt you down and make you pay. |
| 1:00.5 | The President repeatedly struck a defiant tone. |
| 1:03.3 | At one point saying, quote, America will not be intimidated. |
| 1:06.2 | Now, we need to warn you, not just about what we're about to show you, but throughout tonight's |
| 1:10.3 | broadcast, it is video of the aftermath of the attack outside the airport. |
| 1:14.1 | It is brutal. |
| 1:15.1 | It is sickening. |
| 1:17.3 | That's precisely why we want you to see it, because it's this type of barbarism that the |
| 1:21.3 | United States and others are up against. |
| 1:51.3 | This is just the sort of threat that U.S. forces have been most concerned about, and those |
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