ABC News Exclusive: Online Interview With a Terrorist ~ ..... one-fifth of the U.S. oil supply

ABC News ^ | Jan. 8, 2008 | Ross, Brian E

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The following are excerpts from an e-mail interview conducted by Brian Ross with a person who calls himself Jomo and the leader of MEND. While it is impossible to verify with absolute certainty that the author of the e-mails is in fact who he claims to be, messages from the same e-mail address accurately informed ABC News and other organizations of impending MEND attacks in Nigeria and provided photos of hostages the author says are in his group's custody.

"Ross, Brian E" wrote:

Are you the leader or commander of MEND? What is your background?

From: Jomo Gbomo [mailto:yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007
To: Ross, Brian E
Subject: RE: Good afternoon from Brian Ross at ABC News

I am the leader of Mend and all militias in the niger delta. No authority supersedes mine.

"Ross, Brian E" wrote:

Let me start by asking you to describe the goals of your organization, its size and its current activities.

From: Jomo Gbomo [mailto: yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007
To: Ross, Brian E
Subject: RE: Good afternoon from Brian Ross at ABC News

The movement for the emancipation of the niger delta (MEND) is an amalgam of all arm bearing groups in the niger delta fighting for the control of oil revenue by indegenes of the niger delta who have had relatively no benefits from the exploitation of our mineral resources by the nigerian government and oil companies over the last fifty years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More:

Nigerian Terror Threat: $6 a Gallon Gasoline

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January 08, 2007 1:01 PM

Brian Ross and Dana Hughes Report:

The secretive leader of a Nigerian terror group is threatening "a more ruthless" set of attacks on U.S. and European oil facilities, including burning workers alive on offshore oil rigs.

Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the Untied States, and security experts fear new attacks, in combination with parallel attacks in the Mideast, could lead to oil at $120 a barrel and U.S. gasoline prices of $5 to $6 a gallon.

"Every little spike in Nigeria causes us serious problems when it comes to global oil prices," said Ann Korin of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security.

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In a series of e-mail exchanges with ABCNews.com, the self-proclaimed leader of a group called MEND, or Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, said previous attacks and kidnappings that had avoided loss of life do not seem to be working.

"We have the capacity to be as ruthless and as callous as attacks witnessed in Iraq," said the writer who goes by the name of Jomo.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

Yikes!

Lucky for me that the former Nigerian Finance Minister's wife is sending me $35 million of which I get to keep 30%.
You are all so screwed, but I will be living a life of luxury.

[Duke Nukum]

I was just wondering how much Jomo Gbomo was going to cut Brian Ross in on in exchange for his bank account numbers.

[Redbob]

ABC is issuing a news item based on e-mails from NIGERIA???

LOL!
PT Barnum had it right!

[Vigilanteman]

What these prognosticators always fail to take into account is that a basket-case oil producing country like Nigeria needs a continuous flow of revenue from the oil even more than the west needs the oil.

[llevrok]

Jomo?

I wonder if the J in his name is like in Mexican, pronounced as a "H" ?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well The AP set the tone with Jamail Hussein...in Baghdad....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You could buy you a Ball Club in Texas with that much money....

[BurbankKarl]

Brian Ross creating news again...what ever happened to the male intern in FLA?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Beats me...I'm not up on that story....

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Isn't Brian Ross the guy that had a heavy discussion with O'Reilly?

[Cinnamon]

one could say Brian is the latest victim of a Nigerian Email Scam...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And I need to send money?

[dynoman]

Jomo Gbomo is probably one of those Nigerian scammers lowbridge wound up.

[webheart]

I was going to say that you just can't make this stuff up, but apparently, you can!

[budwiesest]

The movement for the emancipation of the niger delta

Hey, this guy tosses the 'n-word' around like nobody's business.

[budwiesest]

(post #2) Why all the ski masks? They expecting a blizzard?

[dynoman]

Did they do it?

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