THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 As of 11.07 AM (GMT+1 hours)
By BENOIT FAUCON
LONDON — A natural gas pipeline serving a plant operated by Royal Dutch Shell PLC has been attacked by locals in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian army said Tuesday, underscoring the ongoing risk of violence despite a cease-fire.
Joint Task Force spokesman Colonel Rabe Abubakar said “there was an attack by the locals” over the weekend on a pipeline serving the Utorogu gas plant in Delta State, in the western part of the region.
The pipeline transports gas from a local field to the plant, which is jointly owned by Shell Nigeria and the state-owned Nigeria Gas Co.
The attack comes after militants and the army decreed a cease-fire following a presidential amnesty offer.
But critics of the peace process say it won’t solve the region’s chronic underdevelopment. Indeed, the episode shows that community unrest — tied to a lack of dividend from the presence of oil companies — continues.
“Aggrieved” locals were behind the attack, not militants, Col. Abubakar said. The JTF “are there to secure the facilities” and have contacted the community leaders, “who agreed there would not be attacks again,” he said.
Shell “had to shut down the pipeline to control the damage,” he added.
Shell couldn’t immediately be reached comment.
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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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