Royal Navy Watched Pirate Kidnapping of Couple »

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Military officials insisted the crew members could not have acted without endangering the lives of Paul Chandler, 59, and his wife, Rachel, 55. There were 75 merchant seamen and 25 Royal Navy sailors aboard the Royal Fleet Auxiliary replenishment tanker Wave Knight. The Chandlers, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were seized in the early hours of October 23 when armed Somali pirates boarded their yacht, the Lynn Rival. It has now emerged the Wave Knight, which was carrying a helicopter, was close by as the drama unfolded.

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    The Muslim terrorists strike again. They have done this going back to the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslims as well. They gave as the reason quotes from the Quran and hadith to Thomas Jefferson who was an ambassador at the time. Same reasoning today the Muslim terrorists use.

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