Oman Confirms Arrest of Saboteurs

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Oman Confirms Arrest of Saboteurs

MUSCAT, Oman,
Jan. 31--Oman on Sunday confirmed that it had arrested an unspecified number of suspected Islamists accused of setting up an organization aimed at destabilizing national security. "Yes, there have been some arrests but there is no need to exaggerate them and accord them a greater magnitude than in reality," Information Minister Hamad Bin Mohammad Al-Rashidi told the state ONA agency.

"The reason for the arrests was the setting up of an organization aimed at harming national security, which is one of the red lines," he said. It was the first official confirmation of the arrests by Oman, which according to relatives' accounts and media reports has detained at least 100 people, including prominent academics.

"Several professors from the education and Islamic studies faculties of Sultan Qaboos University are among more than 100 people who were arrested on Jan. 9," one family member told AFP last week.
His account was corroborated by the testimony of relatives of other detainees.

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The Saudi-owned daily Al-Hayat reported Wednesday that some 300 suspects, including "military officials", had been detained in a wave of arrests this month. It too said the crackdown followed an arms seizure near the Yemeni border.

http://www.iran-daily.com/1383/2204/html/politic.htm#42081

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1. You just don't hear much out of Oman.

That may be a good thing.