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Nine South Korean oil workers have been taken hostage by armed insurgents in Nigeria, the foreign ministry said. - The incident took place overnight at a Daewoo oil facility in the southern Nigerian oil state of Bayelsa. A Nigerian worker was also abducted.

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ekklesiawarrior
Jan. 10, 2007, 8:18 a.m.
BBC Update:
10 January 2007 - 08:30 GMT
Delta militants have carried out a series of attacks and abductions.
The oil platform was being guarded by about 50 soldiers when the unidentified gunmen stormed the building in the early morning and took the men hostage.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
Militants in the Niger Delta are holding nine other foreign oil workers; five Chinese nationals abducted last Friday and three Italians and one Lebanese taken hostage on 7 December.
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LOCKNLOAD
Jan. 10, 2007, 8:29 a.m.
Looks like those dunder/heads controling Nigeria are asking to be cluster-bombed.

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  ekklesiawarrior
  Jan. 10, 2007, 9:07 a.m.
  Did we hear someone say:
  PRAISE the LORD and pass the ammunition?
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ekklesiawarrior
Jan. 10, 2007, 9:11 a.m.
Some background as the Delta in Nigeria -
The Nigerian Delta's troubled waters
Iko Creek snakes through thick mangrove swamps in the heart of Nigeria's Delta region.
Dugout canoes glide silently through the brackish waters.
On board, chattering women shade themselves from the burning sun with colourful umbrellas, standing out against the thick browns and greens of the tropical vegetation.
Young children stand in the shallows drawing in nets which have ensnared tiny glinting silver fish.
A dozen men emerge from the breaking waves of the ocean, pulling their boat onshore, and women wade out to meet them, helping to bring in the morning's catch.
"Fishing is everything for the people here, but there are fewer fish and they are getting smaller every year"
"Crude oil has leaked into the creeks, and acid rain from gas-flaring pollutes the drinking water."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4732010.stm
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ekklesiawarrior
Jan. 10, 2007, 9:17 a.m.
Related Background to this story:
Emancipation of the Niger Delta
http://news.netscape.com/story/2007/01/10/emancipa