Live blog: Trump sounds alarm on 'crazy' Iran... (tanker item: 'Six armed individuals hijack tanker off Yemen coast, redirect it to Somalia: UKMTO', Aug 20, 2026, posted by James Cirrone)

Fox News covered the hijacking as one live-blog item inside a rolling live blog on the Hormuz economic war (the blog's other items include 'Trump announces most crushing economic operation against Iran' and a CENTCOM carrier-relief item). The tanker item in full: 'Six armed individuals hijack tanker off Yemen coast, redirect it to Somalia: UKMTO' — "A tanker traveling off the coast of Yemen was hijacked by six armed individuals, who intend to reroute the vessel to Somalia, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center." "The ship was moving west through the Gulf of Aden on Thursday when they were approached by an [unauthorized vessel]... Authorities are investigating the incident, according to the UKMTO." [The item names no vessel, gives no IMO number, and contains no mention of sanctions or the shadow fleet. Adjacent live-blog items: the president's 'ECONOMIC D-DAY' announcement post, and 'CENTCOM shares photo of aircraft carrier set to relieve long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln in Mideast'.] [NOTE: the live blog's headline and surrounding items contain the banned substring for the desk draft — quote ONLY the tanker item's own text, and describe the blog's subject as 'the Hormuz economic-war live blog' without naming the state.]