U.S. President George W. Bush warned on Wednesday that the country is still "at war" with ideological extremists after terrorist attacks at the U.S. embassy in Yemen.
"This attack is a reminder that we are at war with extremists who will murder innocent people to achieve their ideological objectives," Bush told reporters at the White House.
"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."
The president made the remarks as a response to the suicide car bomb attacks on the U.S. embassy earlier the day in the capital of Yemen, leaving 16 people killed, including six assailants.
According to the U.S. government, the attacks were a failed attempt to breach the embassy compound's walls.
U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters that the assault bears "all the hallmarks of an al-Qaida attack."
"There's an ongoing issue with al-Qaida and ... violent extremists and terrorism in Yemen," he said at a press conference.
A radical group calling itself the Islamic Jihad in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack.
Recent years have witnessed a string of terror attacks by Islamic militants in Yemen where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was reportedly born.
Source:Xinhua
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