Title
Attacks in Middle East, Nigeria send oil to record $117.40
Link
Attacks in Middle East, Nigeria send oil to record $117.40: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
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Excerpt
Monday April 21, 7:21 am ET
Oil prices spiked to a record $117.40 a barrel after a Japanese oil tanker was hit by a rocket near Yemen and militants in Nigeria claimed two attacks on pipelines.
The 150,000-ton tanker Takayama was attacked about 270 miles off the east coast Yemen coast in the Gulf of Aden while it was heading for Saudi Arabia.
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Comment:
Now they've gone too far.
Blow up as many innocent civilians as you want, but when you start messin' with our oil....
...I expect an emergency press conference from Dubya to blame this all on Iran any minute now.