BREAKING: Navy SEALS Capture Hijacked Libyan Oil Tanker, Zero Casualties (VIDEO)

by Austin Petersen

 

Mission Ordered Directly By President Obama

The Associated Press is reporting that President Obama ordered the U.S. Navy seals to board and take command of an oil tanker that was hijacked out of a Libyan port by a splinter militia group. The group was attempting to sell the Libyan oil on the black market.

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A Pentagon spokesman stated that the operation was carried out in international waters southeast of Cyprus at the request of the Libyan and Cypriot governments and was pulled off with zero casualties. The USS Roosevelt was used to disembark the SEALs for their mission which received helicopter support as well.

“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 said.

The militia groups have been demanding autonomy in Eastern Libya since the overthrow of Muammar al-Qadaffi. Rebels have previously seized three export terminals in a port that ships 700,000 barrels of oil per day. The struggle for oil from Libya has been of monumental importance since the overthrow of the brutal dictator in 2011.

The ship is currently heading West in the Mediterranean sea with a fully armed U.S. military escort. This is the second time in six months that U.S. forces have carried out operations involving Libya. Last October a group of Delta Force commandos captured Al Qaeda leader Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai who was wanted for his connection to the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.




Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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