18/09/2008 21:56 LAGOS, Sept 18 (AFP)
Nigerian militants say Shell pipeline destroyed
The most prominent militant group in southern Nigeria — the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) — said Thursday it had destroyed a major oil pipeline belonging to Royal Dutch Shell.
“Fighters from MEND using high explosives have destroyed a major pipeline belonging to Shell Development Company at the Elem-Kalabari Cawthorne Channel axis in Rivers state,” the group said in an email to the media.
The group said the attack took place around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT). It gave few other details except to say that its men bumped into an army patrol that begged for mercy.
There was no immediate comment from Shell.
The attack is the fifth on a Shell facility in Rivers State, the centre of Nigeria’s oil industry, in the space of a week. Chevron has also reported “shooting incidents” close to two of its installations, also in Rivers.
MEND on Sunday declared “war” on the oil industry.
On Wednesday, in a rare daylight attack, MEND said it had blown up a major pipeline, which it said it believed to belong to Shell and to Agip of Italy.
Earlier the same day it attacked a Shell flow station at Orubiri along with another militant group.
Earlier in the week MEND attacked Shell’s Alakiri flow station and another pipeline.
The group has threatened to extend its raids to the other major oil states, Bayelsa and Delta and also to attack the country’s two big deep offshore fields, Shell’s Bonga and Chevron’s Agbami.
In June MEND staged an attack on Bonga, a field which had until then been thought safely out of the reach of militant attacks.
Since it first emerged in early 2006 MEND, which says it is fighting for a larger share of southern Nigeria’s oil revenue to go to local people, has cut Nigeria’s oil production by more than one quarter.
MEND also said Thursday night that a group of its fighters had left base to drop off two South African hostages that the group claims to have rescued from pirates on Friday.
The group said it was planning to hand the men over to a representative of the South African embassy.
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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