what horror! 200 dead in gas pipeline explosion

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060513/ap_on_re_af/nigeria_pipeline_blast;_ylt=AtnCCx7oZPt5A7peu0NfHl2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--


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The impoverished people of Nigeria often tap pipelines, seeking fuel for cooking or resale on the black market. More than 1,000 people in the country have died in recent years when fuel they were pilfering from pipelines caught fire.

In 2004, a pipeline exploded near Lagos as thieves tried to siphon fuel, killing as many as 50 people. A 1998 pipeline blast killed more than 700 in southern Nigeria. Some estimates placed the toll over 1,000 in that blast.

Most of Nigeria's oil is pumped in the southern Niger Delta region, far from Lagos. Pipes carry the crude to refineries across the nation.

Nigerian militants have blown up oil pipelines and kidnapped foreign oil workers to press their demands for local control of oil revenues by inhabitants of the oil-producing south, who feel cheated out of the wealth produced in their backyards. The militant groups have cut production by nearly a quarter in recent months.
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a country rich in resources and the people poor as dirt

a look at america when the bushmilhousegang gets through with it.

condolences to the families of the dead

[wtmusic]

1. From all the media coverage you'd think that less than 200 people

had died in Iraq in the last week.

And now the good news...

[AndyTiedye]

2. Can We Get These People Some Solar Cookers?