| 17/11/2008 08:56 LAGOS, Nov 17 (AFP)
Unidentified gunmen in southern Nigeria held hostage a local employee of Royal Dutch Shell for several hours at the weekend before he was rescued, army and police sources said Monday. Fidelis Akpoghira was seized whilst visiting relatives Sunday in a district of Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil hub, a local military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Musa Sagir told AFP. Sagir said the gunmen were militants and had demanded seven million naira (59,000 dollars/46,000 euros) for the release of Akpoghira before driving away with him. Rivers State police spokesman Rita Abbey said the Shell employee was freed Sunday night by police officers who tracked the kidnappers. Since January 2006, militant attacks have cut Nigeria’s oil output by more than one quarter. Nigeria’s total production currently stands at around two million barrels a day against 2.6 million barrels in 2006. Nigeria was Africa’s largest oil producer before it was overtaken in April by Angola, according to OPEC figures. ©2008 AFP
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.

























































