| The United States has canceled an alert of an Al Qaida attack on a military base in Oman. U.S. officials said the alert, issued on Jan. 27, was found to have been based on information that was not credible. The Jan. 27 message issued by the U.S. embassy in Muscat as well as the State Department warned of "unsubstantiated threat information aimed at Western military interests in southern Oman." At the time, officials said the U.S. intelligence community had received information of a possible Al Qaida attack against the U.S. military presence in the sultanate. "After subsequent analysis, that ’unsubstantiated threat information’ was determined to be not credible, and we hereby rescind our Jan. 27 warden message, effective immediately," the embassy said in a statement on Saturday. |