Bush: Yemen attack a reminder that US is "at war" with extremists

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that the attack on the US embassy in the capital of Yemen was a reminder that the United States remains "at war" with ideological extremists. Attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the US embassy. Sixteen people were killed, including six assailants, officials said. "This attack is a reminder that we are at war with extremists who will murder innocent people to achieve their ideological objectives," Bush said after a meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, who handed command over the Multi-National Force in Iraq, this week to Gen. Ray Odierno. "One objective of these extremists is to kill, to try to cause the United States to lose our nerve and to withdraw from regions of the world," Bush said.