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...lush green fields, but the girls never play on them, for recreation has no place in the ascetic life of the religious institute. In this austere atmosphere, one day last month, a terrifying thing happened. "Who knows what it is all about?" sighed Salahiah's President Haji Hashim bin Haji in despair. "Perhaps it is the will of Allah...
...Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration...
When Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, appealed to Britain for help in subduing the rebellious and elusive Imam of Oman, no one thought that the affair would require much more than a few passes by R.A.F. fighter planes to scare the rebels into pledging loyalty to the red flag of the Sultan. In the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was the very model of long-distance assurance. "It would be an example of military futility," he intoned, "to seek to employ ground forces in those temperatures in desert areas...
...prospect of killing anyone changed to hand-wringing over not bringing the silly little war to an end. At last, British military commanders ordered ground and aerial fire against the rebel stronghold of Firq, believed to be held by the Imam's brother, an ambitious scalawag named Talib bin Ali. British commanders also ordered bombing missions against the presumed stronghold of the Imam himself, a palm-ringed, fortified village called Nizwa, ten miles from Firq...
...Arab conquerors who hailed originally from Muscat and Oman. The tiny European colony at last count numbered 296, mostly British officials. Most everybody on the island speaks Kiswahili and practices Mohammedanism (including the blacks). Overseeing everything is an aged (77) and beloved Sultan, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E. (whom God Preserve).* The old Sultan owns three palaces, three pet peacocks and three bright red automobiles...