Some $23 billion in domestic security financing has flowed to the states from the federal government since the Sept. 11 attacks, but authorities in many states and cities say they have seen little or no intelligence that Al Qaeda, or any of its potential homegrown offshoots, has concrete plans for an attack.
Re "It's Got a Good Beat, but Where's the Cover?" (Nov. 6), on the decline of album art and the potential for digital offshoots online: I regret that the article discussed this issue only in terms of popular music.
I'm more interested in the potential of an officially sanctioned offshoot of Minecraft, called MinecraftEdu, which, as its name suggests, aims to bring the video game into the classroom and use the power of its creative platform to educate kids in a way that will really grab their attention – through gaming.
Both Hammond and Brown have been cited as potential members of Anonymous's now-shuttered offshoot LulzSec, which met its digital end after it was discovered that one of Anonymous's most notorious hackers was an FBI informant.
Before last year's bombings, intelligence chiefs felt they had good visibility of most of the potential terrorist groups in Britain - primarily offshoots of north African communities based around London.
But the potential impact on other firms, including multinationals with offshoots in countries that permit rough and ready workplace standards, could be substantial.
That would bring in the maximum capital, but would also create the maximum potential conflict between the public-service body and the private-sector offshoot.
This offshoot developed a heart drug, Manoplax, which was trumpeted as a potential goldmine.
The centerpiece of the campaign is a special Web site that is an offshoot of New Home Source, a Web site for Builder Homesite that helps potential home buyers search for newly built houses.
It would also be a financial burden and create a potential for spreading throughout Egypt the kind of Islamic extremism promoted by Hamas, which is an offshoot of Egypt's homegrown Muslim Brotherhood, a group that is banned but tolerated.
