All credit goes to Ed Anger for alerting me to this story.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26609025
QuoteNavy Seals board rogue Libya oil tanker Morning Glory
North Korean-flagged oil tanker at Sidra It is not clear where the Morning Glory was heading after escaping the Libyan naval blockade
The US has taken control of a tanker full of oil loaded from a rebel-held port in Libya, the Pentagon says.
The raid by Navy Seals took place in international waters south of Cyprus, said Rear Adm John Kirby.
The Morning Glory's evasion of a naval blockade at the eastern port of Sidra prompted Libya's parliament to sack Prime Minister Ali Zeidan last week.
The oil terminal has been under the control of militia wanting autonomy for eastern Libya since July 2013.
Meanwhile, there has been a deadly attack on the barracks in the main eastern city of Benghazi.
This was their first attempt to export oil from rebel-held areas. It is not clear where the tanker was headed.
Adm Kirby said the operation had been authorised by President Barack Obama and that no-one had been hurt.
"The Morning Glory is carrying a cargo of oil owned by the Libyan government National Oil Company. The ship and its cargo were illicitly obtained," he said, adding that it would now be returned to a Libyan port.
The vessel was flagged in North Korea but officials in Pyongyang said it had been deregistered because of the incident.
It was said to have been operated by an Egyptian company.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says the US move is likely to act as a deterrent to any further attempts to illicitly buy oil from the rebel-controlled ports.
Can we get that gas? Price of gas went up three cents locally this weekend. :mad:
I was just looking at the wiki article on post-Civil War Libya... assuming that it's accurate, there are still armed militias loyal to Gaddafi there. :wacko:
Wasn't his regime nothing but a giant cult of personality? Without him and his sons, what exactly is there to be loyal to? :hmm:
Ghaddafi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadhadhfa)is actually one of the 7 (or 12, depends on how you count and who counts) main tribes of Libya. So there are naturally still many loyalists out there.
Is this the tanker supposed to refuel the malysian jet liner?
Quote from: Siege on March 17, 2014, 08:21:04 AM
Is this the tanker supposed to refuel the malysian jet liner?
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What's the story?
Morning Glory, huh. :shutup: :secret: