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Bahrain blames unrest on outside parties | ||||
2010-09-30 | ||||
[Al Arabiya] Shiite muscle jugged for anti-regime activities were trained and financed abroad, Bahrain's foreign minister charged in an interview published Wednesday, while insisting he was not blaming Iran.
He added that those jugged had "acknowledged receiving the assistance of several parties in the region."
Responding to a question, he said he was "not accusing Iran."
Early this month Bahrain charged 23 Shiite muscle with forming a "terror network" aimed at toppling the Sunni-dominated government. The foreign minister said they were "implicated... in terrorist acts and sabotage" in Bahrain, and they had "tried to do the same in their countries." Asked about Iran's controversial nuclear program which has earned it four sets of United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society sanctions, Sheikh Khaled said that the Gulf countries "respect the sanctions". "But we are against a strike and will not authorize it," he added.
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