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The Chief of the US Customs and Border Protection is of the view that the sheer volume of seagoing traffic, and the opportunities it presents for terrorists, makes containerized merchant shipping vulnerable to terrorist attack. He adds that the agency along with the US Navy is attempting to develop the capability for the assessment of trends, or anomalies in the travel patterns of merchant vessels and the cargoes they carry by modernizing Sound Surveillance system that was central to the Navy's sub tracking successes during the Cold War.
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The Deepwater Case File Management system allows the Coast Guard to make better use of its data and provide for seamless information sharing with other military and law-enforcement agencies. This system can be installed at Coast Guard command centers, on its ships and aircraft where it would operate at classified and unclassified levels by creating an operational link between the Coast Guard's intelligence centers.
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The Nigerian naval escorts failed to help Americans Ryne Hathaway or Denny Fowler as they refused to attack pirates who had attacked their boat on the Olero Creek in Nigeria's Western Delta State. Hathaway and Fowler, both Texans had gone to Nigeria as contractors for ChevronTexaco Corp. to assess the feasibility of resuming drilling operations that had was shut down due to escalating tribal violence.
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