American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 17, 2014 – American forces yesterday boarded
and took control of a commercial tanker ship that was seized earlier
this month by three armed Libyans, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear
Adm. John Kirby said in a Defense Department news release issued today. "No one was hurt tonight when U.S. forces, at the request of both
the Libyan and Cypriot governments, boarded and took control of the
commercial tanker ‘Morning Glory,’ a stateless vessel seized earlier
this month by three armed Libyans,” Kirby said in the release.
The boarding operation, approved by President Barack Obama and conducted
just after 10 p.m. EDT on March 16 in international waters southeast of
Cyprus, was executed by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs attached to Special
Operations Command Europe, Kirby added. "The SEAL team embarked
and operated from the guided missile destroyer USS Roosevelt,” Kirby
said in the release. The USS Roosevelt provided helicopter support and
served as a command and control and support platform for the other
members of the force assigned to conduct the mission, he said.
"The ‘Morning Glory’ is carrying a cargo of oil owned by the Libyan
government National Oil Company,” Kirby said in the release. “The ship
and its cargo were illicitly obtained from the Libyan port of As-Sidra.”
The “Morning Glory” will be underway soon to a port in Libya with a
team of sailors from the USS Stout embarked, Kirby said. The sailors
will be supervising the transit, he added. The USS Roosevelt is
homeported in Mayport, Fla. and is deployed as part of the George H.W.
Bush Carrier Strike Group, Kirby said, adding that the USS Stout is
homeported in Norfolk, Va.
U.S. Forces Board ‘Morning Glory’ Tanker Ship
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