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WASHINGTON (AP) - Freelance terror operations, either affiliated with al-Qaida or inspired by its goals, are a growing menace as the terrorist network's loss of central leadership degrades its potency, the State Department said Wednesday.
Nevertheless, Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida remained "the primary terrorist threat to the United States in 2004," the department said in its first "Country Reports on Terrorism."
"There is a declining role for a significantly degraded al-Qaida and a rising role for groups inspired by al-Qaida," State Department counsel Philip D. Zelikow said at a briefing on the document.
The report cited as examples the March 2004 bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, and an Algerian terrorist leader's announcement of fealty to al-Qaida.