The newspaper said eight people were wounded - four seriously - in the attack with grenades and assault rifles, and 20 Namibians were abducted.

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The attack--like the assault on the USS Cole in a Yemeni port--was scheduled to take place as the two aircraft carriers would have readied to moor at NATO's Rota navy base near Cadiz.

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They described the assault as a predatory attack on a lone female who is still traumatised by what happened.

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