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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Tuttles Almanac" |
| Date: |
19 Jan 2006 06:46:23 PM |
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Nigerian Eco-Terrorists Say U.S. Hostage is Dying |
Nigerian militants to kill hostages if US man dies
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-19T234558Z_01_L1993836_RTRUKOC_0_US-NIGERIA-HOSTAGES.xml&archived=False
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian kidnappers said on Thursday their
U.S. hostage was gravely ill and threatened to kill three other
foreign oil workers held captive if he died.
A leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta,
whose month-long campaign against oil installations has driven up
world oil prices, told Reuters by telephone that the health of
U.S. oil worker Patrick Landry was failing.
The workers appealed to their governments to press Nigerian
President Olusegun Obasanjo to meet the militants' demands
for the release of ethnic Ijaw leaders and for local control
over the region's oil wealth.
"We are in bad shape here, we really are," Landry told Reuters
by telephone. "Meet these people's demands. We are not military:
we came here to work."
The militants are also demanding that Shell, the top investor
in Nigeria, pay $1.5 billion to Bayelsa state to compensate
for pollution. Shell has cut its production by 210,000 barrels
a day -- a tenth of Nigeria's output -- and pulled out 500 staff.
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