Most foreigners are simply held for ransom by militants
Two Turkish oil workers have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta area, police say.
The two men, said to work as engineers for the Italian oil company Agip, were seized on Friday evening while driving through the city of Port Harcourt.
Kidnappings of foreign oil workers are common in the oil-rich but economically poor Niger Delta region.
The pair are thought to be the only foreigners now held captive, after four others were freed this week.
“They were intercepted by militants when they were driving late yesterday evening,” said local police commissioner Felix Ogbaudu on Saturday.
About 70 foreigners have been kidnapped this year in the southern Nigerian region.
There had been speculation that the four hostages were freed earlier this week because of impending elections in Nigeria.
Last month, the European Union said it would not be sending monitors to the Niger Delta for the polls as the region is too dangerous.
Most hostages are released unharmed after a few days, but some have been hurt or killed in bungled rescue efforts by security services.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6534691.stm
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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: 
MORE DETAILS:
A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
