The hostages are so far in good health. They have been scattered around communities.

The hostages were in the vicinity of this confrontation but none was injured.

For now, their release is tied to the fulfillment of our stated conditions by the Nigerian government. We know that won't happen so soon, so in other words we intend keeping these guys for a long, long time.

That's correct, the Thai, Egyptians and Filipino have been released.

Shell employees will pay a terrible price for the use of Shell facilities in the attack of communities in the Niger delta.

The attacks will resume in earnest and the three hostages in our custody as well as those we will capture in the next few days will not be released until our conditions are met.

Eventually they will be released, but our conditions will be met.

The Nigerian government is not sufficiently impacted to consider the conditions we have laid out before them and we perhaps need to be more ambitious in our attacks on oil facilities. Whether we will achieve this objective remains to be seen.

At a time of our choosing, we will resume our attacks with greater devastation and no compassion on those who choose to disregard our warnings.

The release of the hostages is not an indication of a cessation of our attacks against the oil industry and its workers.