US to hand captured tanker over to Libya

Published March 21, 2014 1:03pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is planning to deliver a captured oil tanker to the Libyan government.

A Pentagon spokesman says that 34 sailors from the frigate USS Elrod are aboard the tanker, named the Morning Glory. It will be escorted to international waters just outside Libya’s territorial waters where the handoff is expected to take place within a day or two.

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