Bush vows to fight on
2005-08-04 21:39
Crawford - President George W Bush said on Thursday that videotape threats from al-Qaeda's second-in-command will not drive the United States out of Iraq or the broader Middle East.
"We will stay on the offencive against these people," Bush said of the comments by Ayman al-Zawahri.
Al-Zawahri threatened more destruction in London and said in a videotape earlier on Thursday that the United States would suffer tens of thousands of military dead if it did not withdraw from Iraq.
"They're terrorists and they're killers and they will kill innocent people...so they can impose their dark vision on the world," Bush said as he stood alongside Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
Their talks at Bush's ranch focused heavily on terrorism and the problem of narcotics trafficking.
- AP