http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20040207-112217-7305r.htm "Suicide bomber suspected in subway blast"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials again called for tighter security checks in Moscow yesterday after a subway bombing killed 39 people, but their demands could worsen ethnic tensions as Muslim rebels from Chechnya were blamed for the attack.
Officials strongly suspected the Friday morning rush-hour blast was a suicide bombing, and President Vladimir Putin implicated insurgents fighting Russian troops for Chechen independence for most of the past decade.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said the bomb appeared to have exploded about 20 inches above the floor, indicating it was in a bag or briefcase held by a subway passenger."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073775/posts Coast Guard works to protect US from terrorist attack (detailed info)
The Coast Guard has 361 ports to protect, 95-thousand miles of navigable waterways to defend and 20-thousand oceangoing vessels to keep an eye on.
On July first, it must begin enforcing new anti-terrorism rules mandated by the federal government.
To comply with the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002, the Coast Guard is focusing on what it considers the most likely maritime targets of a terrorist attack. It's identified nearly 12-thousand of them.
About 32-hundred of them are on shore, things like oil refineries, nuclear power plants and other sites that use or store hazardous materials. 8500 others are on the water ferries, barges and cargo ships.