MSNBC - 3 Americans taken Hostage from Nigerian Oil Barge

[kpete]

I will try to update - anyone else know more?

[goforit]

1. Oh well Bound to happen.

[LiberalPartisan]

2. CNN.com has the story

CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/02/18/nigeria.abductions/index.html

MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11421158/

[kpete]

3. thanks

what a scarry world we live in - and I thank this admin for MOST of it. Hate creates hate.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. 9 hostages, 3 American

Nine foreign oil workers have been seized by armed militants from a barge in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

The group, including three Americans, two Thais, two Egyptians, a Briton and a Filipino, were on a pipelaying barge.

Shell's Forcados export terminal was also set on fire, and oil loading there has been suspended.

The attacks come a day after a militant commander told the BBC his group was declaring "total war" on all foreign oil interests in the Delta.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4726680.stm

[seabeyond]

5. this is what my brother does. thanks for info n/t

[Straight Shooter]

6. Thoughts and prayers to the hostages, their friends and families.

No one is ever prepared to deal with something like this. :(