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Arabia
Bahrain Accuses 24 of Forming IS Cell
2015-10-22
[AnNahar] Bahrain on Wednesday charged 24 people with forming a cell of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, plotting suicide kabooms and recruiting fighters for the jihadist organization.

The move came after investigations into the formation of a "branch for a terrorist group... the so-called Daesh [Islamic State]," said a prosecution statement, using the Arabic acronym for IS.

Among the accused are 16 people who are still on the lam.

Their charges include "forming a branch for a terrorist group... joining it, possessing weapons and explosives for terrorist aims, in addition to promoting the overthrow of the regime," said public prosecutor Ahmed al-Hammadi.

One of the defendants is accused of recruiting two others into IS, and helping one of them to travel to Syria where he received military training by jihadists, the prosecutor said.

The pair were also tasked with recruiting others who joined IS abroad.

The group also "plotted suicide attacks by members in Bahrain against worship places, like the attacks by the terrorist group in neighboring countries," Hammadi said in an apparent reference to attacks on Shiite mosques in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
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Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The Gulf are worried now Russia has joined the Syria regime.
Posted by: paul   2015-10-22 09:36  

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