Posted on 11/22/2006 11:14:26 AM PST by Paddlefish
One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage Wednesday was killed and another was wounded during a rescue attempt that also left two kidnappers and a soldier dead, according to Nigerian and private security officials.
Gunmen had seized the seven hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria in the latest attack by militants on oil facilities in the energy-rich region.
Government and private security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media said the four were killed during the rescue attempt.
In all, 25 foreign workers and nearly 60 Nigerian employees had been aboard the vessel belonging to a subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni SpA that was attacked overnight, Eni said in a statement.
The company said 10 armed men attacked the ship and took seven people away on a speedboat, grabbing two Finnish citizens along with an Italian, a Filipino, a Briton, a Pole and a Romanian.
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Hey, Neil Young! Over here! Song material for the 21st Century.
Kofi would have us all a little more like Africa...
Four dead in Muslim Hell Hole!<P.
Four dead in Muslim Hell Hole!.........
The company I used to work for sold the Nigerian Government some software and on one trip by employees a guard at the airport stole his laptop and demanded a ransom to get it back and another trip the employees were robbed. That place is a real Dodge city.
Prayers for the victims. May they rest in peace.
Only the northern Half of Nigeria is Muslim, and they don't have any oil.
The oil is in the Niger Delta, and the really unhappy tribes there that feel they don't get a cut of the oil revenues are either Christian or animist.
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