Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06LAGOS1432
2006-12-18 16:31:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Consulate Lagos
Cable title:  

SHELL, AGIP CONFIRM CAR BOMBS DETONATED; NO

Tags:  EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI 
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FM AMCONSUL LAGOS
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 8295
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C O N F I D E N T I A L LAGOS 001432 

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SIPDIS

DOE FOR GPERSON, CGAY
TREASURY FOR ASEVERENS, SRENENDER, DFIELDS
COMMERCE FOR KBURRESS
STATE PASS USTR FOR ASST USTR SLISER
STATE PASS TRANSPORTATION FOR MARAD
STATE PASS OPIC FOR ZHAN AND MSTUCKART
STATE PASS TDA FOR NCABOT
STATE PASS EXIM FOR JRICHTER
STATE PASS USAID FOR GWEYNAND AND SLAWAETZ

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/03/2016
TAGS: EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
SUBJECT: SHELL, AGIP CONFIRM CAR BOMBS DETONATED; NO
INJURIES REPORTED


Classified By: Consul General Brian Browne for Reasons 1.4 (B,D)

C O N F I D E N T I A L LAGOS 001432

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

DOE FOR GPERSON, CGAY
TREASURY FOR ASEVERENS, SRENENDER, DFIELDS
COMMERCE FOR KBURRESS
STATE PASS USTR FOR ASST USTR SLISER
STATE PASS TRANSPORTATION FOR MARAD
STATE PASS OPIC FOR ZHAN AND MSTUCKART
STATE PASS TDA FOR NCABOT
STATE PASS EXIM FOR JRICHTER
STATE PASS USAID FOR GWEYNAND AND SLAWAETZ

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/03/2016
TAGS: EPET ENERG ASEC PTER NI
SUBJECT: SHELL, AGIP CONFIRM CAR BOMBS DETONATED; NO
INJURIES REPORTED


Classified By: Consul General Brian Browne for Reasons 1.4 (B,D)


1. (C) Mike Achu, Corporate Security Coordinator for Shell
Petroleum and Development Corporation, confirmed that a car
bomb was detonated on the Shell compound in Port Harcourt on
December 18. The car in which the bomb was planted, as well
as several other cars parked nearby, were damaged in the
explosion. According to Lete Adedibe, in charge of security
for Shell at the Port Harcourt facilities, the car had been
parked near a club on the company compound. No one was
harmed in the blast, Adedibe said.


2. (C) Fidelis Anju, Agip's General Manager for Public
Affairs, confirmed that a car bomb exploded outside the
perimeter fence surrounding the company's Port Harcourt
complex on December 18. There were no casualties. The
explosion occurred between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM, Anju said.


3. (C) The explosions occurred after the media received a
message, reportedly from the Movement for the Emancipation of
the Niger Delta (MEND),which stated that MEND would detonate
three car bombs in the Delta region on December 18.
(Comment: Over the course of the year, several distinct
groups have appropriated for themselves the use of the
acronym MEND. For now, we have no reason to believe this is
the same "MEND" that engineered the January/February
kidnappings and oil facility attacks this year. End Comment.)

BROWNE