Niger Delta militants 'repel attack, kill troops'
By CHRISTIAN PUREFOY


Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region said they killed six government soldiers after the military attacked one of its camps on Thursday.






Heavily armed Nigerian rebels pose a constant threat to oil pipelines in the country.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, in an e-mail, said three military gunboats attacked one of its camps around the Ke River in the country's Rivers state.

The group said the gunboats were repelled, with six soldiers dying and three militant fighters wounded in the skirmish.

There was no immediate reaction from the government.

Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil producer and the fourth-largest supplier of oil to the United States. MEND has demanded that more of the country's oil wealth be pumped into the region instead of enriching foreign investors, and the militants have been attacking oil pipelines in retaliation against government forces, limiting the amount of crude oil that can leave the country.

MEND -- the largest rebel group -- has targeted foreign oil companies since 2006. It has bombed pipelines and kidnapped hundreds of foreign oil workers, typically releasing them unharmed, sometimes after receiving a ransom payment.

MEND hopes to secure a greater share of oil wealth for people in the delta, where more than 70 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.

Its attacks on oil facilities have taken a toll.

"Anytime a pipeline is affected, anytime any production gets shut down, you see oil prices jump up one or two dollars a barrel just because there is no slack in the system," said Jim LeCamp, a senior vice president with RBC Wealth Management, which manages assets for wealthy clients worldwide.

Exxon and Shell are two of several companies that have been extracting 2 million barrels of oil a day in Nigeria. Recent rebel attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta have cut overall production by roughly 10 percent -- meaning 200,000 fewer barrels of oil on some days.

That decrease in production comes at a time of increased demand from oil-hungry regions such as China, Russia and Latin America.

"Anytime there's a disruption there, it really affects the system," LeCamp said in a recent interview with CNN.

http://naijanet.com/news/source/2009/feb/26/1001.html

It's time they show these northern parasites  fire for fire. Nonsense!

Operation Obama in action!

More will be massacred if they don't relent from going to that region.

No, it's operation BecomeRich in action.

The dumb ass Soldiers have been killing them installing fear in the minds of the people. It's only right that they let the people know that the soldiers are not immortal and they bleed too. Kill those bastards. Oil companies will destroy the environment, then when the people complain, they call the military for protection.

I'm sure they'll start hand picking southerners in the military to face early death in the hands of these Niger Deltans. I am so sure about that.

Ok

GOOD NEWS

Kill em off.

udezue:

GOOD NEWS

Kill em off.

lmao. I hear all six were members of the 6TH BIAFRA PLATOON OF THE NIGERIAN ARMY

lol Oh well good for them for fighting against their own brothers. Any Igbo who joins naija army to attack MEND deserves have 2000 bullets emptied on him.

please follow this link http://www.nigerdeltanewsonline.com/ for the latest news on Niger Delta Crisis

I'm not taking sides but y'all shouldn't make fun of the deceased soldiers. Their job is to follow orders, that's the way the military works. But the Nigerian Army is pretty pathetic if they can't flush out and kill some rag tag militants.

As for MEND, their cause is noble but they are going about it the wrong way!!!

lol
More MEND propaganda. MEND has been on the losing end of armed encounters in recent times, and these releases are projected to boost confidence in their misguided supporters.

http://www.independentngonline.com/news/tfpg/article04

Your 'freedom fighters' at work.

http://www.independentngonline.com/news/tfpg/article04

Your 'freedom fighters' at work.

That news is 2yrs old.

Keep fighting, and killing, , but don't come near me, cos i have **2 pump action** and all my 3 kids've got Marks 4 each.

If you think that the Fulani and their Hausa, Kanuri, Gwari and Nupe cousins are stupid, I urge you to rethink. Most of the amphibious rank and file of Nigerian army and navy are Ijo. This is Plan A in action by drafting Ijo boys in uniform to confront the menace posed by MEND. When they have located the position and method of operation of MEND through wasting the lives of these miguided Ijo people, they would apply Odi-styled approach.

Dull, crappy, stale news!! Niger Delta Militants? More like Desperate criminals to me, stealing crude and deceiving themselves with a fuzzy cause that no-one supports.

They have no bite outside their marshy verandas; did they ever blow up Julius Berger in Abj as they swore they would?
Lousy thieving cowards,time will come when they'll slurp that crude that their so FULL of.

St. Funmi, what are you? Head PPRO for MEND? Get a job!!