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    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa...113876148.html
    Tanker carrying rebel oil escapes Libya
    North Korean-flagged vessel slips past Libyan warships and is now in international waters, rebels and officials say.
    Last updated: 11 Mar 2014 14:51

    ...

    Abdelkader Houili, who sits on the GNC's energy committee, told Al-Nabaa television that the navy's warships, which mainly consist of fast patrol boats, had been forced to sail close to the coast because of the weather.

    "The tanker then took advantage of the gap to head for the open sea," he said...
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A2C15120140313
    North Korea denies role in tanker loaded with crude at rebel-held Libya port
    SEOUL Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:05am EDT

    ...

    DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

    The agency said it had temporarily allowed the Egyptian firm Golden East Logistics to use its flag under a six-month contract signed in late February. It said the firm ignored its demand to leave the rebel-held Libyan port without loading oil.

    Contacted by Reuters, Golden East Logistics said it had been responsible for the vessel's certification until its North Korean flag was canceled earlier this week but was not the operator and had no knowledge of its cargo, whereabouts or ultimate destination...
    Vessel Finder:

    MORNING GLORY
    MORNING GLORY - IMO 9044504 - Details and current position
    Last edited by Emily; March 17, 2014, 04:22 PM. Reason: Updated title.
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    Re: Mystery tanker loaded with crude turns off tracking device and heads into Mediterranean

    http://incyprus.philenews.com/en-gb/.../come-and-gone
    Come and gone
    16 March 2014 21:46

    Police in Cyprus were yesterday forced to release three men - suspected of attempting to purchase illegal crude oil from a mysterious renegade tanker - from custody after it emerged that investigators did not have the right to arrest them...
    Navy SEALs Seize Oil Freighter ?Morning Glory? in Mediterranean

    By Luis Martinez
    @LMartinezABC
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    Mar 17, 2014 3:16am

    The Pentagon says that a team of Navy SEALs has boarded the oil freighter ?Morning Glory? in the Mediterranean that had been seized by three armed Libyans. No one was hurt in the raid.

    ...

    State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki issued a statement last week that the United States was ?deeply concerned by reports that a vessel sailing under the name Morning Glory is loading a cargo of illicitly obtained oil at the Libyan port of As-Sidra.?

    Psaki said ?This action is counter to law and amounts to theft from the Libyan people. The oil belongs to the Libyan National Oil Company and its joint venture partners. These partners include U.S. companies in the Waha consortium...
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      Re: Mystery tanker loaded with crude turns off tracking device and heads into Mediterranean - Seized by U.S. Navy

      http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/636ee0be-a...#axzz2wFtzZmdN
      Last updated: March 17, 2014 5:00 pm
      US seizure of mystery oil tanker leaves questions unanswered

      By Borzou Daragahi in Cairo and Neil Hume in London
      ...

      The oil aboard the Morning Glory will be returned to Libyan authorities, but the ownership and origin of the ship have confounded maritime and energy experts. Indeed, the political and commercial dealings surrounding the boat have all the elements of a spy thriller.

      Separatist rebels in eastern Libya, led by the warlord Ibrahim Jadran, last week loaded the ship with about 250,000 barrels of crude oil and spirited it into international waters in a move that precipitated the downfall of the fragile transitional government of prime minister Ali Zeidan...
      http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/0...s-oil-hostage/
      January 14th, 2014
      03:46 PM ET
      By Mick Krever, CNN

      A 32-year-old Libyan militia leader, sitting since July on billions of dollars of oil in the eastern part of the country, was defiant in an exclusive interview Tuesday with CNN?s Christiane Amanpour.
      ...

      In 2012, he was entrusted by the government to guard Libya's crucial eastern oil ports.

      But last July he went rogue, seizing the ports ? blocking oil exports ? and demanding more autonomy and shared revenues for his eastern region, which he calls by its ancient Roman name, Cyrenaica.

      ?We used to be part of that government until the corruption became so visible, and the government started to sell oil without measuring units, and after we became certain that such a government is not credible and unable to rebuild the state. That?s why we declared independence of our province and we started to seek our fair rights.?

      ...

      Jadran is standing opposed not only to the government, but also Islamists, over which much concern has been expressed by the international community.

      ?We will not allow those groups to take safe haven in Libya and allow Libya to become another Iraq, another Syria or Afghanistan,? he said. ?We are aspiring to a State of institutions and law and order.?

      ...

      Jadran claimed that he is ?about to start exporting oil,? and he will use those revenues to pay his soldiers ? who by his own admission have not been paid for five months...
      From 'freedom fighters' to 'warlords'? Sounds like the history of the 'Bonus Army' is repeating itself in Libya.

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