Pengassan members monitor the quantity and quality of crude leaving Nigerian terminals, and some observers have said the strike threatens to cripple the country's exportcapability.
In September, the U.S. Africa Command warned that Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram in Nigeria and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were trying to synchronize their efforts to launch attacks on U.S and Western interests, but had yet to show a significant capability to export terror.
The bill contains an inane formula which allows the export of supercomputers with a performance capability of 25% or less of the average of the two most powerful supercomputers currently available commercially.
Military aviation: The technology transferred to Japan under the FS-X project could ultimately enable Japan to develop a capability to produce and export fighter aircraft to third countries thereby becoming a formidable U.S. competitor in yet another area.
Military aviation: The technology transferred to Japan under the FS-X project could ultimately enable Japan to develop a capability to produce and export fighter aircraft to third countries -- thereby becoming a formidable U.S. competitor in yet another area.
The political, as well as military, purposes to which such excessive capability can be put is evident in the Sandinistas' ability to export large quantities of weapons to subversive forces in El Salvador and other countries.