Nigeria Rebels Vow More Attacks After 'Warning Strike' On Oil Pipeline -- Christian Science Monitor
Nigeria’s fragile Oct. 25 cease-fire with militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region has come dangerously close to a violent end, as rebels took credit this weekend for an attack on an oil pipeline.
Nigeria’s fragile truce with rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region has come dangerously close to a violent end, as rebels took credit this weekend for an attack on an oil pipeline some 30 miles west of Port Harcourt.
The rebel group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said that the attack was “a warning strike,” carried out by five speedboats full of armed men, and was intended to send a signal to the government of hospitalized President Umaru Yar’Adua to renew its efforts at engaging the rebels in peace talks. The talks were suspended after Mr. Yar’Adua left suddenly for emergency medical treatment in Saudi Arabia nearly a month ago.
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