This week's attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen shows al Qaeda's ability to regroup in a strategically important country and further underscores a shift in the group's focus from Iraq, analysts said.
It is a reminder that the United States will have to keep fighting al Qaeda on multiple fronts even if Iraq -- cast by the Bush administration as the central front in its war on terrorism -- calms down.
"Al Qaeda's most senior leaders have called for attacks in Yemen and elsewhere in the region, and extremist groups in Yemen have made it known in words and terrible misdeeds that they are willing to murder innocent civilians," a U.S. counterterrorism official said.
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