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Shafaq News..Competing accounts cloud Sibu 1 tanker rescue

Summary by شفق نيوز
Shafaq News- Baghdad/ BasraConflicting accounts have emerged over who freed the Sibu 1 oil-products tanker from pirates off Somalia, with a Basra tribal sheikh crediting members of his clan, Puntland

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Cebu 1 became hostage to Somali pirates after being abducted in the Gulf of Aden, before being liberated in Puntland. While its crew survived, syllables provoked controversy about Iraqi involvement in the process.

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Four security sources told AFP on Sunday that around 30 suspected pirates captured during the rescue operation of a hijacked oil tanker escaped while being transported to prison, raising suspicions that police may have been involved in their escape.

The gunmen of an Iraqi clan recovered an Iraqi businessman-owned transporter and freed the kidnappers on board in cooperation with the Somali security forces...

It is enough that the call arrives until soon and far, and what has happened to the individual turns into something that means the group, but this time the story was not a land dispute, nor a problem within an Iraqi city. There was an oil tanker, pirates, and water thousands of kilometres away, to move the story from Basra to the Gulf of Aden, and to open up a bigger question about the clan and the state, and about the strength of solidarity whe…

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شفق نيوز broke the news in Iraq on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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