"ملخص لعلاقات الحكومة البريطانية مع قبائل وشيوخ عربستان. بقلم الملازم أ. ت. ويلسون، القائم بأعمال القنصل في عربستان" [و‎‎٣‎٠] (١٤٣/٦٤)

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fully familiar with their career of crime felt it impossible to resort to public
execution for fear of arousing the hostility of the Muhaisin tribe, but ex
pressed his intention of imprisoning them for life. There the matter ended.
This gang of pirates was so well known all over the Gulf that their capture
had almost beneficial effect upon public opinion, and the incident became the
chief topic of conversation in the coffee shops of the Gulf ports for some
time afterwards.
During 1909, two piracies occurred on the bar and one on the high seas,
all committed by Arabs under Turkish or Persian jurisdiction.
On 13th February, a Persian vessel owned by Kal Muhammad bin
’Abdul Hasan, Bushiri, was pirated between Qasbat-al-Nassar and the Bar.
Pirates said to be adherents of Bukhakh, who lives on Bahmanshlr. They
were not discovered.
A second piracy took place at the same spot on the 7th March, the victim
being a boat belonging to Saiyid Hasan bin Saiyid Husain of Bandar Rig.
Some 10,000 Krans in cash and property was stolen, the boat’s gig was
broken up and it was intended also to sink the boat, but some of the pirates
objected to this. The matter was reported to HajI Sultan and after enquiry
a lx>at belonging to Jabir bin Mu’alla, an ^-Shaikh of Qasbat-al-Nassar, was
seized.
Shaikh Mubarak was asked by Shaikh Khaz’al to hand over three persons
suspected of complicity in the piracy, including Jabir bin Mu’alla. This
was done but Shaikh Mubarak subsequently asked for the release of two of
them on the ground that he had certain information that they were guiltless :
they were accordingly released. A list of the names of the pirates was
obtained by HajI Sultan, and it appeared therefrom that they were all in
habitants of Ma’amir of Dorah on the Turkish side of the river.
A third piracy on Kuwait boat on the open seas off Ras-al-Ijlaiah
(Kaliyah) took place on 28th June. Some R6,000 to R7,000 in cash and
goods were stolen, all on board murdered and the boat scuttled. Shaikh
Mubarak ascertained that all the pirates were subjects of Shaikh Khaz’al,
resident on the Turkish bank of the Shatt-al-’Arab at Duwasir. One of them,
by name, Salih, was subsequently caught at Qasbat-al-Nassar and imprisoned
by the Shaikh. The remainder whose names are, however, known are still
at large. A request by Shaikh Khaz’al for their arrest was refused by the
Wall, Sulaiman Nazif Bey, and Shaikh Mubarak himself did not feel able
to ask the Wali to surrender them in view of the political discussion that such
a request would inevitably involve.
Up to the end of 1910 no progress had been made with this case.