(Oct. 7: A woman lays clothes out to dry on an oil pipeline running through the Okrika neighborhood of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.)
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
LAGOS, Nigeria — Most of the dozens of troops and oil workers taken hostage in a raid on a navy base and neighboring oil facility in southern Nigeria have been released, police said Wednesday.
The eight remaining hostages — employees of a subsidiary for Royal Dutch Shell PLC — should be freed within hours, said Hafiz Ringim, the police commissioner for Bayelsa state.
Assailants wielding automatic rifles overran the navy base and occupied the nearby oil facility Tuesday. About 60 oil workers were held captive at the oil installation and an unknown number of navy personnel were held at the base. Most of the hostages were released late Tuesday.
“Last night there was a discussion between the government and militant leaders and we think we have reached an agreement,” Ringim said. “We will see if the conditions have been fulfilled by noon.”
He did not elaborate on the deal, but said the attackers had initially demanded that the oil company supply light and water to the local community and tackle erosion problems, he said. They also demanded money, although he declined to say how much.
Armed fighters frequently attack oil installations in Nigeria’s poverty-stricken southern Delta. Although Nigeria is Africa’s largest exporter of crude, government corruption means there is little infrastructure like clean water, regular electricity or roads. Many communities turn to the oil companies to provide services, provoking clashes when demands are not met.
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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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