Tanker trying to load oil from "seized by terrorists" oilfields, fired upon by Libyan Navy

NATO's creation of the new Libya is beginning to look more and more like Somalia.  The country is already broken up tribe-wise but try teaching the West about African tribes or even Arab or Muslim tribes. The kind of unity from the Libyan tribes that Gadhafi had developed and knew how to control is lost forever and that translates to only constant chaos and civil wars in Libya from now to eternity. 

Watch how either the UK or France will lay the groundwork to invade Libya in the near future to "save the Libyans."  Or if they can't do it openly they will send their "security companies" which are manned by ex-soldiers to do the needful.  Either way,  Libyan resources will be fought over by Western powers and the various Libyan tribes.  Wunderbar!!

Ulf Laessing and Ghaith Shennib writing at Reuters:
....Libya's navy opened fire  after a Maltese-flagged oil tanker approached to illegally load crude at a port that has been controlled for months by armed protesters demanding more autonomy from Tripoli, officials said on Monday.

The use of force to prevent protesters at eastern ports from shipping oil to world markets independently is a major escalation in a blockade that has already slashed oil exports and revenues for the OPEC member state.

Libyan officials said the tanker Baku had entered Libyan waters on Sunday in an attempt to approach the seized port of Es Sider. But the navy fired shots after the vessel refused to stop and instead turned to flee toward Malta.

"We asked them to change course toward Misrata, but then we had to open fire when they refused and started to pull away, zigzagging," navy spokesman Emad Ayoub said in a televised news conference with other military officials........