PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead a U.S. oil executive in an apparently planned assassination in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday, authorities said.
Militants who have been waging a five-month-long campaign against the oil industry said they had no hand in the killing of the executive, who worked for Texan oil services company Baker Hughes. A diplomat and oil industry source said it was more likely to be linked to a work-related dispute.
"The American was shot by a man on a motorcycle. The motorcycle pulled up beside him and shot him," Samuel Agbetuyi, Rivers State Police Commissioner, told Reuters in the southern city of Port Harcourt, where the attack happened.
A spokesman for Baker Hughes, which drills wells and performs other services for major oil companies, confirmed an employee was shot on his way to work on Wednesday.
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Comment: Sounds like the same kind of scurrilous tactics used by the Mossad to murder Yasser Arafat in November 2004. In fact, even the Jeruslaem Post reported that Arafat had symptoms very similar to the abovementioned Wadi Haddad who was murdered by Mossad poision...