11.   Libya remains one of the seven states listed by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism, although its more recent report pointed to progress.

12.   Nations designated as state sponsors of terrorism are barred from receiving U.S. economic assistance and arms-related exports.

13.   Nor did Rumsfeld present plans for opening any new front in the campaign against terror networks or their state sponsors, a senior Defense Department official said.

14.   Only countries accused by the State Department of being state sponsors of terrorism can be sued.

15.   Over the last decade, the United States has focused its anti-terrorism efforts on state sponsors of terrorism, forbidding trade with countries like Libya and Iran.

16.   Reasonably cohesive, formally structured terrorist organizations with relatively clear links to state sponsors are increasingly being replaced by more informal networks of activists.

17.   Rather, our opponent is a global network of terrorist organizations and their state sponsors, committed to denying free people the opportunity to live as they choose.

18.   Some groups have state sponsors that possess or can obtain weapons of the latter three types.

19.   State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States is not yet ready to remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

20.   The State Department officially describes Iran as the leading state sponsor of terrorism.