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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Early on the morning of March 17 (Libyan time) a team of US Navy SEALs boarded and took control of an oil tanker full of illegally obtained Libyan crude. The North Korean flagged tanker, the Morning Glory, was purportedly loaded with 200,000 barrels of illegal crude and seized earlier this month by three Libyan rebels.
The SEALs took control of the vessel in international waters near Cyprus at the request of both the Libyan and Cypriot government, a US Pentagon statement said. No one was hurt in the action.
“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 from the Libyan port of As-Sidra,” said the Pentagon. “The boarding operation, approved by President Obama and conducted in international waters southeast of Cyprus, was executed by a team of US Navy SEALs attached to Special Operations Command Europe.
Reports on the tanker since its seizure have been conflicting, first it was a North Korean vessel under contract to the Saudis, then reports have North Korea revoking the ship’s registry and it being under control of an Egyptian firm.
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