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Article: Nigeria militants step up oil attacks.(Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta)(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- May 28, 2008
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Byline: Sarah Simpson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Port Harcourt, Nigeria -- Militants in Africa's top oil producer are marking President Umaru Yar'Adua's first full year in power with fresh pipeline bombings, underscoring the difficulties that civilian rulers have had calming strife linked to Nigeria's notoriously weak and corrupt democratic system.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta's (MEND) latest attack - a nighttime bombing on a Royal Dutch Shell PLC operated pipeline - helped push global oil prices to $133 per barrel.
That explosion, the latest of nearly half a dozen in recent weeks, has raised fears of ...