Friday 13 May 2011

Blogger has been down, big things happened in Salalah last night and today.

Just a quick little blog today.

Blogger had some problems and they have deleted all posts and comments made since some point on Wednesday night. Consequently, my blog about Merge 104.8's launch date on June 7th has been scrubbed by Blogger. I'm not sure if they will restore it, they are apparently restoring peoples posts and comments. If you are reading this and was the commenter that posted about the Dhofari Power company, please get in touch - please email me at my usual email address - mrsythe *at* gmail *dot* com


Last night, at 8pm, the internet and mobile phones were switched off in the Dhofar region and helicopters and army trucks moved in on central Salalah. Many people were arrested and the army have occupied the area, preventing people from massing there today after Friday prayers. The mobile phone networks were switched back on around 10pm last night, but with very weak signals. Reportedly, the same actions took place here in Muscat on those who were still protesting in the Wizarat area of Al Khuwair.

I figure this will all be in the headlines of tomorrow's newspapers. It was a fairly annoying time for Blogger to stop working.

More tomorrow.

le fin.

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