Nigeria militants threaten oil tankers

Militants who seized nine foreign oil workers in a string of attacks across Nigeria’s troubled delta region threatened Sunday to step up assaults by firing rockets at international oil tankers.

…A man identifying himself as the commander of the movement told The Associated Press by telephone his group was poised to escalate the violence by firing rockets at crude oil tankers offshore.

“We’ll use our rockets on the ships to stop them from taking our oil,” said the man, who gave his name as Efie Alari. His identity could not be independently verified, but the call came from a number used by the group before.

CNN