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Unknown Information About Muscat Terrorists


The police of the Sultanate of Oman have revealed the identities of the “three terrorist brothers” who launched an attack on a mosque in Muscat last Monday evening.

The police, in a statement reported by the official news agency, said, “The perpetrators are three Omani brothers who died due to their insistence on resisting security forces. Investigative procedures and inquiries indicated that they were influenced by misguided ideologies.”

According to available information, the three brothers held prestigious jobs; one of them had a PhD and worked as an employee in one of the country’s important ministries. He had also presented television programs broadcast on local TV discussing the development in the Sultanate, which are archived on YouTube. The second brother worked at the Central Bank, and the third worked in the municipality.

A video recording of their fourth brother, Sultan Al-Hassani, a former artist who retired from singing, showed him renouncing his brothers, condemning their bloodshed and threat to the country’s security and stability.

The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility last Tuesday for the attack on the Imam Ali Mosque in “Al-Wadi Al-Kabir” in Muscat Governorate, targeting a number of residents in the Sultanate who were commemorating Ashura, resulting in the death of six people, including a police officer, the injury of about 28 people, and the killing of the three attackers.

A video posted by the ISIS-affiliated Amaq website showed the three brothers who carried out the terrorist attack on the mosque standing behind the black flag of the organization, pledging allegiance to “Abu Hafs,” referring to the organization’s leader, the fifth commander who was pledged allegiance on August 3, 2023, after the previous leader Abu Al-Hussein Al-Husseini Al-Qurashi was killed during a battle, as announced in an audio recording by the organization’s spokesman, Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari.

In the recording, the speaker, believed to be Dr. Hamad Al-Hassani, justifies the attack on the mosque with sectarian language, inciting young people in the Arab world to rebel and attacking religious scholars.

He also attacked the West, led by the United States, accusing it of waging “the largest doctrinal, military, media, and economic war against Muslims in general, and ISIS in particular.”

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