NIGERIA

Seattle Post: Nigerian Fighters Capture Oil Sites
WARRI, Nigeria -- Ethnic militants on Saturday threatened to blow up 11
multinational oil installations they claimed to have captured in
retaliation for government military raids. Dan Ekpebide, a leader of
Ijaw
tribal fighters in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, said his followers
took
over oil pipeline facilities belonging to ChevronTexaco, Royal/Dutch
Shell
and TotalFinaElf on Friday. The companies had earlier evacuated the
sites
during unrest that has killed scores of people.