Thread: Nigeria Rebels Attack Oil Giants

Nigeria Rebels Attack Oil Giants


Global Research, July 11, 2009
Prensa Latina) - 2009-07-09


Abuja, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) The Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND) rejected presidential amnesty and claimed authorship of attacks against AGIP and Shell oil companies in southern Nigeria

During the early hours on Wednesday, MEND sabotaged oil pipelines of the Italian AGIP in Nambe Creek in the state of Bayelsa and also installations of the multi-national Shell, both in the southern Delta province.

On June 25, Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua decreed amnesty for those rebels who decide to lay down their arms and renounce violent actions in the conflict zone.

The main insurgent group of the country immediately rejected the presidential pardon and announced it would continue attacking foreign oil companies and new investment projects in the region.

In 2006, MEND arose against the government demanding a better distribution of oil wealth, a rich and abundant resource in the region, and using it to develop the impoverished province of Delta del Niger.

The insurgents threatened last Friday to destroy a Trans-Saharan project of 10 billion dollars signed by Nigeria and Algeria to deliver gas to the north African nation to be shipped later to Europe.

Oil production dropped to a little more than a million barrels a day due to actions against the United States company Chevron, the Italian AGIP and English-Dutch Shell that operated in the largest oil and gas producing country in Africa.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=14317

WHAT, the nice little Nigerians are causing trouble?

Unheard of ......... NOT!

It's probably funded by all the money that Obama is giving Africe, his birth country.
He's building up 3rd world relatives by beating down America. Nice guy huh?