Wed Oct 8, 2008 4:55am EDT
CAPE TOWN, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile,Research, Stock Buzz) said on Wednesday that re-entering the western part of Nigeria was a key part of its strategy in Africa, but the oil firm added that security in the restive region remained a problem.
“Our strategy includes re-entry into the west of Nigeria,” Graham Smith, Shell’s vice president of exploration in Africa,, said at the Africa Upstream 2008 oil conference in Cape Town.
“Security and stability continue to be a challenge there,” he added.
The Anglo-Dutch firm, which was long the leading oil producer in Nigeria, has been hard hit by a wave of militant attacks in the Niger Delta region.
In July the company announced that it might not be able to meet all of its oil export obligations from Nigeria after militants from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) blew up a key pipeline.
MEND launched a campaign of violent sabotage against industry installations in the world’s eighth-biggest oil exporter in early 2006, saying it was fighting for the people of the Niger Delta to gain greater control of oil resources. (Reporting by Paul Simao)
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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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