British Residency, No. 83(1092/57)CONFIDENTIAL BAHRAIN. June 20, 1957. Sir, IVe since their failure at Buraimi in 1955 the SaudiArabian Government have been maintaining a number of Omanimalcontents in a camp near Dammam in Eastern Saudi Arabia.When they have been in special favour with their masters,these Omanis have been given the title of "Omani Liberation Army" but their numbers seem never to have exceeded 500.Our information about the activities of these people has always been meagre and since the rupture of diplomaticrelations, virtually non-existent. I now have the honourto report on what appears to have been their first operation against the authority of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman; day-to-day developments have been reported to you in a series of telegrams, ending with Her Majesty's ConsulGeneral at muscat's telegram No. 183 to me of the 12th of June. والمهم 2. The origin of the recent disturbances appears to have been the deposition of Salih bin Isa from the position of Shaikh of the Harth tribe in the Sharqiyah, which is the Pomer 13HOBFAP 7CinCEI 6PAK 23PATS 28PAO 29Muscat 25 PAR extreme eastern part of Muscat. Salih was associated withthe Imam Ghalib and fled to Saudi Arabia and thence toCairo, where he remained with Talib, the Imam's brother.In his place, the tribe nominated Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohamed,a son of a former Shaikh of the tribe, but it appears that his The Right HonourableSelwyn Lloyd, C.B.E., M.P.,etc., etc., etc.,Foreign Oflice, LONDON, S.W. 1.
