MANAMA BAHRAIN has dismantled a “terrorist cell” linked to Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, the interior minister said, slamming what he called “escalation” in the kingdom as the Shiite opposition intensifies its protests.
Security services “have, with the help of a brotherly country, arrested the members of a terrorist cell made up of eight Bahraini elements,” state news agency BNA late on Saturday quoted Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah al Khalifa as saying.
The eight “moved between Iran, Iraq and Lebanon and received training in using arms and explosives as well as financial aid,” he said. “Details about the case will be announced as soon as the investigation is completed.”
Sheikh Rashid also denounced the “escalation in violence” in the Sunni-ruled kingdom where a protester and a policeman were killed during Shiite-led protests to mark the second anniversary of a 2011 uprising on Thursday. He said “terrorist acts had taken place over the past three days” in which “two people were killed and 75 policemen were hurt”.
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