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发帖数: 10729 | 1 Navy SEALs have boarded and taken command of an oil tanker that was seized
by three armed men at a Libyan port earlier this month, thwarting an attempt
by a splinter militia group from selling nationalized Libyan oil on the
black market.
A Pentagon spokesman said that the operation was carried out Sunday night on
orders from President Obama in international waters southeast of Cyprus at
the request of the Libyan and Cypriot governments. There were no casualties.
The USS Roosevelt provided an embarkation point for the SEALs as well as
helicopter support and served as a command and control and support platform.
"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," Rear Adm. John Kirby's statement read in part.
The tanker had previously eluded a Libyan naval blockade around the port of
Sidra, which is being held by militias who are demanding autonomy for
eastern Libya. The maneuver led to the dismissal of Libyan Prime Minister
Ali Zeidan by that country's parliament last week.
This past August, the rebels had seized three export terminals in the port
that previously accounted for 700,000 barrels of oil per day. The struggle
for control of Libya's oil wealth has been one of the main sources of strife
in the country since the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.
The ship was docked at the port under the flag of North Korea, but officials
in Pyongyang told the Associated Press they had canceled the vessel's
registration after being notified that the tanker had been loaded for export
in defiance of the authorities in Tripoli.
The Pentagon said that a team of sailors will take the tanker to a Libyan
port. The Cypriot ministry of foreign affairs told Reuters that the vessel
was heading west in the Mediterranean Sea with a U.S. military escort.
It was the second time in six months that U.S. forces had carried out an
operation involving Libya. In October, a group of commandos from the U.S.
Army's Delta Force captured Al Qaeda leader Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai,
known by his alias Anas al-Libi, who had been wanted in connection with the
1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 2 中新网3月17日电综合外媒报道，美国国防部17日表示，美军海豹突击队已经控制了此
前载满石油试图驶向公海的利比亚非法游轮。
报道称，当地时间16日晚，海豹突击队进行了此次突袭，突袭在塞浦路斯海岸边的公海
区域内进行。
国防部的声明称，在突袭中没有人受伤。
8日，利比亚自称“昔兰尼加自治政府”的一名官员说，他们首次对外出口石油的油轮
“晨曦荣耀”，正在锡德拉港装载石油并将于近期离港。
利比亚石油部长阿鲁西8日表示，这种私自出售石油的行为违反利比亚法律和国际公约
，国防部和军队应采取必要的行动。利比亚国防部副部长哈里德说，该油轮可以空载离
港，一旦发现油轮装载后离港，利比亚海军将对其发起攻击。
11日，利比亚国民议会发言人哈密丹称，“晨曦荣耀”前往利比亚西部途中试图前往公
海，利比亚海军以及民兵部队随后向其开枪射击。
锡德拉港目前处在民兵武装控制下，他们要求利比亚东部独立。 | s******9
发帖数: 1451 | | l******g
发帖数: 6771 | 4 是啊，据说上面就三名持枪歹徒，还调用seal，确实牛
【在 s******9 的大作中提到】
: 老牛了！
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