Hi Marcin and List
I would suspect that it actually has nothing to do with meteorites or rocks at all.
It may have to do with whats going on over there and they do not want to be accused of not being able to protect tourists. They might not be able to protect their own people and so foreigners become an international liability.
So, to discourage hunters and adventurers, they arrest some, toss them in jail, confiscate their belongings and deport them without much diplomacy (you read what the embassy's are reputed to have said, so it may be that the embassy's were aware of what was going to happen, or at least the outcome before the hunters were even arrested) knowing that (hoping that?) word would spread within the meteorite community.
Within the major cities, they could protect maybe, but out in the open desert, there isn't much civil presence.
Just a thought
Mark F
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Maybe its a warning to all . Dont go there for meteorite hunting becouse we
put You all in jail.
They now know what they have on their deserts and what value this material
have (vide Omani + Swiss hunting).
But from the other side, there is something that I dont understand.
Some time ago someone sell on ebay Dhofar sample WITH oryginal Oman
perission (for recover or export). So whate the hell. They know in the past
that there are meteorite hunters who exporting Oman meteoites.
So there must be another reason why this group of hunters was arrested and
removed from Oman. Not becouse they try to steal some black desert stones.
If Im wrong there must be any Oman meteorite expert (while they capture
them) who decided that this group have real meteorites (not black desert
stones for aquarium), so they try to steal them without permission, and
thats why they was put in jail.
I thinking correctly or I should make again test for stupidity ?????????
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