Americans held hostage

NRAJOE · 05-05-2003, 02:50 PM

Lagos, Nigeria
Americans held hostage: Striking Nigerian oil workers have been holding nearly 100 foreign oil workers, including 21 Americans, hostage for more than 10 days, the Texas-based drilling company Transocean said this week. The strikers are holding their captives on four offshore oil rigs that drill for the oil multinationals Royal/Dutch Shell and TotalFinaElf. They are protesting a decision by Transocean to use boats instead of helicopters to ferry them from the rigs, about 25 miles offshore, to the mainland. Some of the hostages have been able to e-mail their families and their labor unions. One of them reported that the captors had threatened to blow up the rigs if anyone tried to storm them, a union official said.

:assult: :nod:

dhermesc · 05-05-2003, 04:03 PM

Sounds like the Teamsters local has flipped their wig.

Big Dog · 05-05-2003, 07:24 PM

Sounds like a tailor-made mission for the USNavy SEALS and their Polish shipmates, from the recent unpleasentness in Iraq.

NRAJOE · 05-05-2003, 08:19 PM

That would work for me Big Dog! :right:

grizzly · 05-05-2003, 09:15 PM

Or else the captors would get the choice of boats to the mainland or swimming...With the emphasis on swimming...

05-05-2003, 02:50 PM	#1
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,052 Images: 3	Americans held hostage Lagos, Nigeria Americans held hostage: Striking Nigerian oil workers have been holding nearly 100 foreign oil workers, including 21 Americans, hostage for more than 10 days, the Texas-based drilling company Transocean said this week. The strikers are holding their captives on four offshore oil rigs that drill for the oil multinationals Royal/Dutch Shell and TotalFinaElf. They are protesting a decision by Transocean to use boats instead of helicopters to ferry them from the rigs, about 25 miles offshore, to the mainland. Some of the hostages have been able to e-mail their families and their labor unions. One of them reported that the captors had threatened to blow up the rigs if anyone tried to storm them, a union official said. :assult: :nod: __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

05-05-2003, 04:03 PM	#2
dhermesc Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: East Central Kansas Posts: 1,762	Sounds like the Teamsters local has flipped their wig. __________________ Liberty is for those that claim it.

05-05-2003, 07:24 PM	#3
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,214	Sounds like a tailor-made mission for the USNavy SEALS and their Polish shipmates, from the recent unpleasentness in Iraq. __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

05-05-2003, 08:19 PM	#4
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,052 Images: 3	That would work for me Big Dog! :right: __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

05-05-2003, 09:15 PM	#5
grizzly Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: PDR of IL Posts: 653	Must not be any Texans there Or else the captors would get the choice of boats to the mainland or swimming...With the emphasis on swimming... __________________ When white man found this land, Indians were running it. No Taxes... No Debt... Plenty Buffalo... Plenty beaver! Women did most of the work. Medicine Man free! Indian men hunted and fished all the time! White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that. "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.