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| Navy Seals board rogue Libya oil tanker Morning Glory | Navy Seals board rogue Libya oil tanker Morning Glory |
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| The US has taken control of a tanker full of oil loaded from a rebel-held port in Libya, officials say. | The US has taken control of a tanker full of oil loaded from a rebel-held port in Libya, officials say. |
| The raid by Navy Seals took place in international waters off the coast of Cyprus, they add. | |
| Libya's parliament dismissed Prime Minister Ali Zeidan last week after the Morning Glory evaded a naval blockade to leave the eastern port of Sidra. | |
| The oil terminal has been under the control of militias who want autonomy for eastern Libya since July 2013. | |
| This was their first attempt to export oil from rebel-held areas. It is not clear where the tanker was headed. | |
| The vessel was flagged in North Korea but officials in Pyongyang said it had been deregistered because of the incident. | |
| It was said to have been operated by an Egyptian company. | |
| The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says the US move is likely to act as a deterrent to any further attempts to illicitly buy oil from the rebel-controlled ports. |