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Nigerian militants who have been holding nine foreign oil workers for the past 11 days want a guarantee there will be no military reprisal against them before they release the hostages, Delta state Gov. James Ibori said Tuesday.
“We have words from them that they will not attack any installation and they will not do anything unless they are provoked,” said Ibori, who is leading government efforts to gain the hostages' release.
The same group kidnapped four hostages in January, releasing them 19 days later. Ibori said February's attacks were a direct result of the Nigerian military breaking its pledge to not attack in return for the release of the men kidnapped in January.
The current hostages, employees of Willbros Group, were taken from a boat under contract to Shell near its Forcados export terminal. Among those kidnapped are three U.S. citizens, one from Great Britain, two from Egypt, two from Thailand and one from the Philippines, Willbros said in a Feb. 18 statement. Willbros operations are run out of Houston. One of the hostages is a Texan, Macon Hawkins of Kosciusko.

















Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.














IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS:


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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.

























































