Posted on 06/21/2008 8:46:02 PM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
Armed youths blew up a Nigerian crude oil pipeline operated by U.S. major Chevron, a militant group said on Saturday, cutting more output from the world's eighth largest oil exporter.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it was contacted by youths claiming responsibility for Thursday's attack on Chevron's Abiteye-Olero crude pipeline.
The military said about 120,000 barrels per day of crude oil production was shut by the sabotage.
"For production to have stopped, this shows the damage was serious," said the government's Army Brigadier-General Wuyep Rintip, head of the Joint Task Force in the western Delta.
A Chevron spokeswoman confirmed that one of its pipelines was damaged, but declined to say how much output was affected.
A wave of attacks in the West African country has cut production by a fifth since early 2006, helping push world oil prices to record highs.
Thursday's incident came hours after a bold night-time militant attack on Royal Dutch Shell's main offshore oil facility that cut Nigeria's oil output by 10 percent.
The rise in violence prompted Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua on Friday to order the country's armed forces to tighten security in the Niger Delta.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which claimed responsibility for the attack on Shell's Bonga oilfield, shrugged off the president's security order as "empty talk" but said it was on a war footing.
"MEND wishes to commend these patriotic youths who we are now empowering with more powerful explosives and new techniques to destroy additional pipelines inside delta state," the group said in an email to Reuters.
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deez yoots...
Yikes!
Yutes!
Yet another instance of the media afraid for their necks.
Yoots paid off by oil speculators?
The excuse de jour for higher oil & gas futures and another 10 cent jump in pump prices.
There is sabotage in Nigeria almost weekly. Not really news.
What are they planning to emancipate the Delta from?
Here come $150 oil!
Drill here.
Drill now.
ANWR and the CS.
Repeal the FederalGastax.
Encourage States to do the same.
Capitalism? Foreign investment? Christianity?
Somehow, I think this is just a familiar code name for "Muslims". But then, our media wouldn't want to actually identify them, would they?
Ahhhh, the rascally youths of Nigeria. If it was snowing they would have just had snowball fights. At least the yutes were conscientious enough to contact The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and claim responsibility. I feel so relieved now. I don’t have to take my EGADS (Egregious General Anxiety Disorder Syndrome) medication before I go to bed now. /sarcasm
There is a growing muslim population in Nigeria, but primarily in the north. Those in the south are most likely Christian. The terrorists here are not looking for religious domination. They want a slice of the oil pie. As it stands now the government gets all of it, and by the time everyone there has taken their piece, there is none left for the areas that actually have the production.
Most terroristic activities related to the petroleum industry in Nigeria are not religious inspired activities. Most activities are directed at the Nigerian government and the government owned NNPC. Tribes and tribal leaders want a bigger slice of the petroleum pie.
You beat me by 30 seconds.
read ‘Emancipate’ as ‘Liberate’ and that tells you it is a communist front...same as any Liberation front around the world..Backed and funded by communists and terrorist organizations...all designed to bring down western civilization as we know it...
And in spite of all this the American left still insists on putting global warming and ecology issues ahead of our very survival..and they have suckered in millions of democrats who never question the official party line when they should be up in arms screaming about what is happening...
the same religion of the yutes giving problems in france
Wasn’t Hussein, The Magic Negro from Nigeria?
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