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U.S. Navy members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul inspect the Indian-flagged vessel Faize Osamani in the Gulf of Oman, April 5, 2010. The sailors took 10 suspected pirates into custody and rescued eight crewmembers who had escaped from the dhow.

SUSPECTED PIRATE SEARCH

U.S. Navy members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul inspect the Indian-flagged vessel Faize Osamani in the Gulf of Oman, April 5, 2010. The sailors took 10 suspected pirates into custody and rescued eight crewmembers who had escaped from the dhow.

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