Incident Date:
November 17, 2010
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown Nigeria
Perpetrators: Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Projectile (rockets, mortars, RPGs))
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Gas/oil)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities
Perpetrators:
Description: "11/17/2010: Nigerian security officials reported that 19 hostages – including two U.S nationals, two French nationals, two Indonesian nationals, and a Canadian national taken from an Afren oil rig; eight Nigerians abducted from an ExxonMobil platform; and four others – had been freed during a wide-ranging counter-terrorism operation by Joint Task Force (JTF) personnel targeting militant camps across the Niger Delta region earlier in the day. Authorities also seized an anti-aircraft gun, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 30,000 rounds of ammunition, and dynamite. A JTF spokesperson claimed that former Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) commanders had helped co-ordinate the operation."
References: 1) Janes DB
2) "Mickolus, Edward F. (2013). Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology. North Carolina: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers. p. 163"
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