Niger Delta Rebels Say They Hit Another Pipeline in Oil War
DAKAR, Senegal Militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria said Saturday that they had hit another oil pipeline, continuing a streak of attacks that have badly damaged the countrys largest oil producer, Royal Dutch Shell.
On Friday, the Anglo-Dutch oil company said it would declare force majeure as a result of a spate of recent attacks aimed at its infrastructure. Shell said it was investigating the most recent claim of an attack by militants on a major pipeline at Buguma Front in Rivers State, but that it could not confirm it.
Violence has escalated in the Niger Delta in recent weeks as armed groups claiming to seek greater autonomy and wealth for the impoverished region have carried out an escalating series of attacks on oil installations and military facilities.
A group calling itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The groups spokesman, who goes by the nom de guerre Jomo Gbomo, has sent e-mail messages to reporters in recent days vowing that his group will carry out an oil war.
The group says it will fan out and attack oil installations of other companies in neighboring states and will continue to nibble every day at the oil infrastructure in Nigeria until the oil exports reach zero.
Nigeria is Africas top petroleum producer, but the attacks have stopped about 150,000 barrels per day of production and have reduced Nigerias overall output to less than two million barrels per day. Nigeria is the worlds eighth-largest exporter of oil and the fourth-largest supplier to the United States.
Nigerias president, Umaru YarAdua, has tried a variety of measures to cool tensions in the region. He tried to convene a summit on the conflict and development issues in the Niger Delta, and announced plans to create a cabinet position to address to the regions problems. But the government has also prosecuted a more aggressive military strategy, carrying out deadly raids on suspected militia hide-outs.
The Niger Delta, a labyrinth of rivers and creeks on the southern coast, is the poorest region of Nigeria despite earning billions of dollars in oil revenue every year.
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.
