Published: Jul 12, 2007
BRISBANE, July 12 AAP – Kidnapped Australian oil worker Jason Lane has been released alive but sick after a “horrific” ordeal at the hands of militant rebels in the Niger Delta. The Queenslander was released overnight along with his four co-workers, a week after they were kidnapped from an Anglo-Dutch Shell oil rig.
His father Brian Lane says his son told him in a phone conversation shortly after his release he had contracted malaria during the ordeal. “He’s a little bit worse for the wear, he said it wasn’t a picnic, he said it was the most horrific thing he’d ever been through,” he told ABC radio. Though the phone call was brief, Mr Lane says it was a welcome relief to speak to his son after a week spent on tenterhooks. “What did I say? I said ‘Thank Christ for that! Hope you’re all right’. He just went through a few formalities, not very much, of what had happened. “It was only about three or four minutes of speaking but it was a good three or four minutes.”
Mr Lane and his co-workers, employees of Lone Star Drilling Company, were abducted by gunmen as they were working on the Shell oil exploration platform last Wednesday.
Militants have kidnapped about 200 foreigners, mostly oil workers, in the region since the beginning of 2006. A ransom is generally demanded for their release but it is unclear if any money was paid in exchange for the release of the five. The men declined to speak to journalists in Nigeria but they have reportedly told the Bayelsa State governor Timipre Sylva in a brief meeting that they were going back to their countries immediately. AAP ews/jt/mn
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.
