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News Flash !Terrorist attack against diplomatic missions in Lagos possible, MEND dissociates itself !

Posted by 9jabook.com on April 5, 2009 at 9:00am
LAGOS, April 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria warned on Sunday of a possible attack against diplomatic missions in Lagos, the commercial capital of Africa's biggest oil producer. In a message to U.S. citizens living in Nigeria, the embassy said it had received reports of a possible strike against missions located close to the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, situated in the exclusive Victoria Island neighbourhood. "U.S. Mission Nigeria has received reports about a possible attacks against diplomatic missions in Lagos located on Walter Carrington Crescent," the message said. Nigerian police increased their vigilance in the neighbourhood and called on U.S. citizens to report any suspicious activity. Nigeria is the world's eighth biggest exporter of crude oil which supplies the United States and China. Militants in the southern Niger Delta, the heartland of its oil industry, have carried out regular strikes against installations belonging to oil giants including U.S. firms. The main militant group in the region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), dissociated itself from the threat. "Our struggle is a just one and our enemies are not the good people of America," it said in a statement. The U.S. embassy message gave no details of the nature of the reports it had received regarding the possible attack in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation divided roughly equally between Christians and Muslims. But it said that U.S. government facilities worldwide remained in a state of heightened alert because of the threat of violence against Americans and U.S. interests.
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