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The US Navy intercepted a tanker laden with illicit Libyan oil and is returning it to port in Libya. As many as three car bombs detonated during a graduation ceremony at a military academy in Benghazi, killing 11 people and injuring 18 more. In separate car bomb attacks in Benghazi, an Air Force pilot was critically injured, and a soldier was killed. A group of men torched a secondary school in Derna, the fifth attack on Derna schools in the past year. Ousted prime minister Ali Zeidan said the current GNC head is "hostage" to Islamists; Zeidan also claimed to have refused the GNC's request to send arms to Syrian rebels.