11.   In short, the Americans say the bin Laden terror network, al-Qaida, is hurting, though it remains a decided threat.

12.   Islamic Jihad, in turn, receives money and sponsorship from bin Laden and has been absorbed into his terror network, the officials added.

13.   More than ever, to help neutralize the terror network is to focus efforts more intensely to interrupt the flow of funds to them.

14.   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.

15.   Only about a dozen of them are still being held and the authorities believe some may have ties to al-Qaida, the terror network.

16.   Peace in the Middle East would not make bin Laden and his and other terror networks disappear.

17.   Taking Bush at his word, in time the terror networks operating out of other countries would have to be dealt with.

18.   Terror networks also are difficult to identify and locate.

19.   That would include accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden or his associates within the al-Qaida terror network.

20.   That would include bin Laden or his associates within the al-Qaida terror network.