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Article: VOA NEWS: NIGER DELTA MILITANTS RESCIND OFFER TO HELP RESCUE KIDNAPPED ISRAELI
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 28, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
The main militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta region says it has located a kidnapped Israeli businessman, but has rescinded its offer to help rescue him.
Nigerian police say gunmen kidnapped the Israeli businessman from his home in the Niger Delta's main city, Port Harcourt, late Tuesday.
In a statement sent to reporters Thursday a spokesman for the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta says it is now demanding an apology from Israel National News, a broadcast service which described MEND as a terrorist group.
The MEND statement says it will now plead with the businessman's captors to be human but will not otherwise intervene.
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