BBC NEWS Oil man dies in Niger Delta raid A foreign oil worker has been killed in an armed attack on a compound in the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt. Police say one Colombian national was killed, while a second Colombian and a Filipino have been kidnapped. The attack comes days after militants in the Niger Delta called off a ceasefire after their leader's arrest. In the past, oil workers kidnapped in the Delta have usually been released unharmed. Militants want the region to receive more oil revenues. Security contractors said about 10 gunmen, some dressed in military fatigues, exchanged fire with soldiers at the Saipem yard before escaping. "Some armed men came in boats, attacked Aka base where you have Saipem (oil services company)," police spokeswoman Ireju Barasua in Port Harcourt told Reuters news agency. The main militant group in the region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), called off a truce with the Nigerian government on Sunday. It said it would begin a new campaign of foreign kidnappings after one of its leaders, Henry Okah, was arrested while in Angola. Mend announced a voluntary truce after the May inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, but says talks have failed. Previous attacks on oil installations have slashed output of Nigerian crude. Last week, President Yar'Adua ordered an investigation into alleged links between government officials in the Niger Delta and violent criminal gangs. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/africa/7016983.stm Published: 2007/09/27 17:44:52 GMT C BBC MMVII . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=43287/stime=1190981412/nc1=3848607/nc2=4706132/nc3=4725796> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
