| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - While Tripoli???s position, that oil shipments without its blessing is a theft of state property, is backed by most of the western powers including the US, shipping firms have been unwilling to challenge the ???blockade.??? Sinking a loaded tanker would be a major environmental catastrophe for the Libyan coast so it is unlikely the government will carry out its threat to bomb the tanker.
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