BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: We begin with the international battle against terrorism. In its annual assessment, the U.S. State Department says most terrorist threats are coming from new players with new sources of support. CNN's State Department correspondent, Andrea Koppel, reports.</s>ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After decades of pointing to the Middle East as the hub of terrorist activity, the United States now says South Asia, especially Afghanistan, a failed state run by a weak government, has become their new safe haven. Osama bin Laden and many of his al Qaeda members are hiding out and training there in camps, as area an untold number of other Islamic terrorist networks. In fact, the State Department says it's also seeing a change in who is getting into the terrorism business.</s>MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: We are seeing a shift from well-organized local groups supported by state sponsors, to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror. We're detecting a shift from state funding to private sponsorship and criminal enterprises, such as blackmail and trafficking and drugs, guns and even human beings.</s>KOPPEL: But keeping ahead of these loosely-knit terrorist networks hasn't been easy. The U.S. says that it's had to shift its strategy focusing on finances, coordinating their operations with many governments overseas, and where necessary, imposing sanctions against those countries, like Afghanistan, which continue to harbor terrorists. Reporting live, I'm Andrea Koppel, CNN, at the State Department
Terrorist Threats: New Players Shift the Spotlight from the Middle East