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With oil prices already stretched to record highs, a terrorist attack targeting vital oil installations would have immediate global consequences, experts say. Wells, pipelines, refineries and tankers have all been targeted in recent years by Al-Qaeda-linked groups, or by local armed militants such as in the Niger Delta - and many.

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