Nigeria oil 'total war' warning

[donsu]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4723076.stm

A Nigerian militant commander in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta has told the BBC his group is declaring "total war" on all foreign oil interests.
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The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has given oil companies and their employees until midnight on Friday night to leave the region.

It recently blew up two oil pipelines, held four foreign oil workers hostage and sabotaged two major oilfields.

The group wants greater control of the oil wealth produced on their land.

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Nigeria is Africa's leading oil exporter and the fifth-biggest source of US oil imports, but despite its oil wealth, many Nigerians live in abject poverty.

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He told the BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar that they had launched their campaign, called "dark February", to ensure that all foreign oil interests left.
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it's past time for the Nigerian people to benefit from their own resources


are you working on your own personal alternative energy? are you preparing for a cat. 6 event, storm or otherwise?

[cliss]

1. I agree. This is getting tense.

I think that if the foreign oil companies are smart, they'll pack their bags and get out. Lesson to be learned: if they had been reasonable, if they had trained Nigerians in management, or used some of the revenues to help build up the communities, they wouldn't be in the situation today.

Notice, also, how the OIL PRODUCING countries are starting to rebel? Check out Iran and Venezuela. They are as vocal as can be, and now Nigeria is in the mix.

The oil companies should be on 'red alert' that things may start to get dicey.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. But..but..Capitalism is "good" for them.

I guess that watching their kids starve overrides the PR. Silly people expecting a return on what they are deluded to think is their oil.

[Dr.Phool]

3. It's gonna be a long, long, summer.

We'll have our hurricanes down here. Won't have gas to evacuate.

Maybe I better not sell that motorcycle.

[applegrove]

4. A very sad story. 54 Million kids under the age of 14 years old. Half the

population. Those three groups of people in the country have been at war before. And now the South (non muslim) has the oil (at least geographically. Have oil -will fight.

In a tiny country. So the chances that war will lead to increased suffering is huge. Half the country is kids. That is right. The most horrid alternative would be if nobody in the country saw the benefits of oil wealth.
Tenth most populous country in the world.

[MisterP]

5. Obasanjo auto-coup?

like Fujimori in '92?