Oil Workers Flee Attacks By Militants In Nigeria, 09/15/08

Militants Continue Attacks In Nigeria

Nigerian militants of the MEND, (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), continued their attacks in what they are calling an "oil war." A security official who wished to remain anonymous quoted the death toll at over 100 people killed in the fighting. In the most recent attack on a Royal Dutch Shell flow station, MEND militants use heavy automatic weapon fire and dynamite during their siege which lasted over an hour. The MEND seeks to provide more local control over the vast amounts of natural resource deposits in the rich Niger Delta region and has vowed to continue the attacks until they have achieved their goal. The fighting continues to severely disrupt Nigeria's oil output.

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