Who do you call when someone hijacks your commercial oil tanker? The United States, of course:
A United States Navy SEAL team took control of an oil tanker in waters near Cyprus on Monday. The tanker had been hijacked by armed Libyans.
The commandos seized the ship, named Morning Glory, after three Libyan militiamen took control of the ship earlier this month.
Libya’s and Cyprus’s governments requested help from the United States to get the commercial tanker back. No American was hurt in the operation.
“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,” Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
President Obama endorsed the team’s boarding operation, which was executed just after 10 p.m. EDT Sunday, according to the Pentagon.
We can discuss why it’s our responsibility to police the high seas, but the high seas do need policing.