Global terrorism has a new face: its practitioners are less the well-organized, state-sponsored groups of old and increasingly part of "far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror."

If a state-sponsored terrorist group planted a bomb, that could lead to retaliation by the United States.

"These drinks are a transitional, training beer," said Jim Kooler, the administrator of California Friday Night Live, a state-sponsored group that promotes healthy lifestyles for teenagers.

"It all is kind of blending together, but the dominant thing will always be the cultural piece," said Donald J. Coggsville, the president of the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, a state-sponsored group.

In the 1970s and early/mid-1980s, the Basque Country was gripped by intense violence practised by Basque nationalist and state-sponsored illegal groups and police forces.

The effort to freeze Microsoft out of such procurements was possibly part of a multiple-year process that began in 2002 with a study by a state-sponsored group called the IT Commission.

(A state-sponsored group, the Berger Commission, is currently studying ways to "right-size" New York's hospital industry, prompting fears of more such closures.)

Exhibitions and promotions by individuals as well as state-sponsored groups helped the growing of silat's popularity, particularly in Europe and United States.

There is growing concern from both governments as well as private industry regarding the risk that these systems could be intentionally compromised by "evildoers" such as hackers, disgruntled employees, organized criminals, terrorist organizations or even state-sponsored groups.

Guinea's President, Sekou Toure, disbanded all of the private dance orchestras in the country, and created a network of state-sponsored groups throughout the countty.