Linguine with Spicy Hot Crab and Tomatoes

Ingredients

• 2 cooked Dungeness or blue crabs (1 to 1 1/2 pounds each)
• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 5 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 1/2 cups dry red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon
• 5 cups peeled, seeded and chopped tomatoes (fresh or canned)
• 2 cups bottled clam juice or fish stock
• 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 32 fresh basil leaves, 12 torn into small pieces, and 20 cut into thin strips, for garnish
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh oregano or marjoram
• 1 1/4 teaspoons red pepper flakes
• Salt
• 1 pound dried linguine pasta