Musallam bin Nufl (?-July 7, 2013), was a key insurgent leadership figure of the Dhofar Liberation Front (DLF) which was the main rebel force in Southern Oman in the 1960s.
[1] He was also a senior member of an influential and large Dhofari desert tribe known as the Bait Kathir (al Kathiri).
[5][6] Bin Nufl and the DLF would commence guerrilla operations on his return from Iraq and Saudi Arabia later in 1963.
[9] In 1968 a conference of senior leaders of the various liberation factions decided to opt for a more Marxist approach to achieving success against Western-backed royal families.
Musallam bin Nufl and other key leaders of the DLF rejected the more Marxist regional anti-British cause, choosing to stick with their more narrow nationalist and separatist agenda in Dhofar.