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Nigerian gangs turn their guns on their own

Home (IHT) - PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria: Rosemary Douglas has no connection to the oil business that pumps more than two million barrels of crude a day from beneath the swampy Niger Delta. But the violence surrounding it pierced her home in September anyway, when a bullet shattered her upper arm as she napped with her 2-year-old daughter.

"I don't know why this happened to me," she said, grimacing in pain as she gave a bewildered account of the gunplay that had engulfed her neighborhood and much of this oil-drenched city. "I mind my own business."

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