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Nigeria gunmen threaten with the launch of attacks against the oil ships

1222 (GMT+04:00) - 20/02/06

 
The acts of sabotage and the kidnapping threaten the supplies of Nigeria oil
The acts of sabotage and the kidnapping threaten the supplies of Nigeria oil

Wary, Nigeria ( Cnn ) - she threatened the movement of Niger Delta liberation that kidnapped nine foreigners they work in the oil field, and she caused the reduction of the countries exports by the amount of the five, with the escalation of her attacks with shooting missiles at the ships that uses the international oil platforms

And the movement claimed its responsibility about several attacks that launched it Saturday, from it the operation of the kidnapping of three Americans and Egyptians and Thais and British and philippine .

And said a person in an interview with The Associated Press claimed that it is the movement leader, they are about the escalation of their attacks with shooting rocket propelled grenades at the oil ships that approaches the international oil platforms .

And the claimed leader who he is called Ifi Alari said " we will seek help from the missiles against the ships for their prevention from taking our oil ."

And the movement said that the attacks that it executed Saturday came in response to the bombardment of the military helicopters belonging to the country for it .

And he was more than 40 gunman of the claimed movement they broke into Saturday dawn, an oil platform of a company " Welbrous " the one that takes from Houston a headquarters of it and was supplying tubes to a company " a paralysis " triumphant over the guard and carried out the kidnapping of the foreign employees .

And in Washington US State Department spokesman student Nawal Clay with the release of the hostages without conditions, saying " we cooperate with the Nigerian government and we discuss with her in the issue ."

This and the oil prices rose a dollar Friday so that they settle at 60 dollars to the barrel, a pushed by fears of the breakdown of the supplies because of the threats of the gunmen of the working oil companies in Niger Delta .

And in the last decades the international oil companies faced many of the crises that stopped their production from them the armed kidnapping and the demonstrations and the acts of sabotage that targets the oil pipelines .

But it and in most of the states the kidnappers released the hostages against a ransom without the affliction of any harm by them .

 

 

 


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