National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf

National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية لتحرير عمان والخليج العربي
Founded	1969
Dissolved	December 1971
Merged into	PFLOAG
Ideology	Arab nationalism

The National Democratic Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf (Arabic: الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية لتحرير عمان والخليج العربي‎‎, abbreviated NDFLOAG) was a guerrilla movement in the Arabian peninsula.

NDFLOAG was formed in Iraq in 1969 by Omani students (primarily studying in Kuwait) and other emigrees. Some had been members of leftwing organizations (such as the Arab Nationalist Movement), others were hithero unorganized opponents of the Omani government. In difference to the other, larger, rural guerrilla movement Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG), NDFLOAG was predominately an urban movement. NDFLOAG was supported by urban intellectuals. Ideologically, PFLOAG was Marxist whilst NDFLOAG was Ba'ath-oriented. When it was publicly launched, NDFLOAG had branches in different towns in Oman and in most of the other parts of the Persian Gulf.

NDFLOAG began guerrilla operations in northern Oman on June 12, 1970 attacking garrisons at the towns of Izki and Nizwa with mortars. Both attacks failed. The attack on a SAF army post outside Izki was repelled, and the entire unit was either killed or captured. Afterwards several arrests were made, based on testimonies from prisoners from the Izki raid, and three NDFLOAG arms caches in Muti, Sur and Matrah had been stored was seized by the state forces. These crack-downs lead to a temporary ceasing of NDFLOAG activities in Oman. The group continued to organize outside Oman, though.

Although the June 12, 1970 attacks had been fought off, they functioned as a catalyst for the groups that conspired against the Sultan Said bin Taimur (which soon thereafter led to the overthrow of the Sultan by his son Qaboos bin Said, with British support). The attacks had caught SAF by surprise, and the attacks contributed to the perception that Said bin Taimur was unable to defeat the insurgency.

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