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| Bahrain Accuses Iran of Training Opposition Militants |
| 2014-01-04 |
[An Nahar] Bahrain accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards Friday of providing opposition forces of Evil with explosives training in order to carry out attacks in the Gulf kingdom, announcing that it had locked awayDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! five suspects. Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni Moslem dynasty but has a population that is majority Shiite. The government crushed a mostly Shiite-led uprising in 2011 and has long accused predominantly Shiite Iran of meddling in its affairs. Chief prosecutor Osama al-Oufi said the intelligence service reported last month that "Bahraini Ahmed Mahfuz Mussawi, currently living in Iran, had planned terrorist bombing operations targeting institutions and places vital to the illusory sovereignty and security of the kingdom." Quoted by state news agency BNA, he added that five people had been arrested and "admitted joining a group to carry out terrorist attacks... and traveled to Iran to receive training in Revolutionary Guards camps and then received sums of money." On Monday, Bahraini authorities said they had seized a boat smuggling explosives made in Iran and Syria into the country. Since the 2011 uprising, which called for democratic reforms, demonstrations have regularly been held in Shiite villages around the capital, often sparking festivities with security forces. At least 89 people have been killed in Bahrain since the protests began, according to the International Federation for Human Rights. Several kabooms have taken place in recent months, including one that targeted a Sunni mosque close to the royal court in July but caused no casualties. |
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