Blog 2

Militant leader warns: 'We will destroy lives'

In a distant mangrove swaps in the southern part of Nigeria, 24 Filipinos were held hostages. A picture showing them sitting in a row with the armed militants dancing around them. They were on a cargo ship but was stopped on January 20th. The militants caught the Filipinos as their newest victims over Nigeria’s oil profits. In Africa Nigeria is one of their largest oil exporters but due to the conflicts there it reduced the exported oil barrels by almost 500 thousand. Also the militants threatened that they would make the oil export reduce even more. The militants also claimed that they have over 200 thousand men on their side. One of the commanders in the militants said they wanted the expatriates or they take away even more hostages and kill them one by one.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02/06/nigeria.hostages/index.html/