Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.

America faces a new kind of threat: networks of terrorists, mostly foreign, working within its borders.

An international network of terrorists eventually conceives a plan to take advantage of this situation.

Today the country is facing international networks of terrorists, and the weapons needed are often more technologically advanced, flexible and innovative.

Investigators working on unraveling the network of terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, however, have not said whether the suspects used encryption or steganography.

"Our nation is waging a war on a radical network of terrorists, not on a religion and not on a civilization," he said.

Investigators later came to believe that the plot was linked to a worldwide network of terrorists orchestrated by Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile.

Over all, the report said that current aid policy is better suited to fighting the cold war than to the battle against networks of terrorists without armies or national capitals.

Mylroie's research challenges the widespread belief that rogue networks of terrorists run by Islamic radicals like Osama bin Laden work without state sponsorship.

The loss of a limb apparently did not diminish his fierce passion to construct a network of terrorists throughout Europe, according to American and European intelligence officials.

The last time one was drafted, four summers ago, few people imagined that the most imminent threat came not from any rival state but from an international network of terrorists.

But officials said the emergence of sophisticated, privately financed networks of terrorists posed a new and even thornier set of diplomatic and legal challenges for Western governments.

British intelligence officials tipped off their American counterparts to the most serious terrorist plot foiled in the US since September 11 after uncovering a trans-Atlantic network of terrorists.

Washington has accused Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network of terrorists of being responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Mr. Bakr said that Mr. Reid had spent time in Pakistan and could have been connected to the Al Qaeda network of terrorists, but he did not know for sure.

Each response focused on links to Al Qaeda, the loose network of terrorists that Mr. bin Laden leads, but made only tangential reference to Mr. bin Laden himself.

The Tunisian Combat Group (TCG) or Tunisian Fighting Group was a loose network of terrorists who aspire to install an Islamist government in Tunisia.

This new phase of the conflict, the Pentagon has warned, may well be drawn out and will not end until the Qaeda network of terrorists is destroyed and the Taliban leaders who shelter it are toppled.

During the next six years, O'Neill became the bureau's most committed tracker of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network of terrorists as they struck against American interests around the world.

He also wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times suggesting that the newer and more deadly terrorist threat to the U.S. was embodied by "networks of terrorists, mostly foreign, working within its borders."

In describing his war goals in broad terms, Mr. Bush also talked about destroying the al-Qaeda network of terrorists, a goal Secretary of State Colin L. Powell began discussing over the weekend.

Our president has sworn to preserve, protect and defend America so that never again will a network of terrorists be able to kill innocent Americans as we all saw on that sunny, clear morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

We cannot afford to stand by while networks of terrorists assemble, plan and act against free and open societies, and we should not hesitate to take action in defense of our freedom and our American way of life.

While the Administration maintains that the evidence of VX production is clear, the links between the factory and Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile whose network of terrorists was the target of last week's strike, is circuitous.

From his Afghan redoubt, Osama bin Laden has declared war on American interests everywhere, fueled by rage against American power in the Middle East, and backed, United States officials say, by an international network of terrorists and companies.