Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Arizona meteorite hunters released from Omani arrest


I got home tonight just in time to catch a story on Tucson's KVOA channel 4 about two Arizona meteorite hunters, Michael Farmer and Robert Ward, who were arrested in Oman for illegal 'mining' and each held "25 days in an interrogation center in an 8 foot by 8 foot cement cell with a blanket on the floor" before being sentenced to 6 months in prison. A legal appeal and help from the US Embassy got them released last week, just before civil unrest started rippling through that Mideast nation. You can watch the video interview online.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:26 AM

    Kind of bizarre. What they did was illegal and they knew. I've been to Oman for the last two weeks, there is definitely no civil war.

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  2. Anonymous11:48 AM

    Perhaps you did not get "invited to jail or illegally detained or go into areas off the tourist sites???? dummy

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