Authorities in Bahrain claim they have arrested an Iran-backed terror cell that was planning to attack Bahraini and Saudi government targets and a bridge that connects both countries.
Bahraini leaders have long sought to characterize the pro-democracy uprising as an Iranian ploy for influence in the Shia-majority, Sunni-led Gulf state. But Bahrain’s public prosecutor’s allegations that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was behind a terrorist plot is even more dubious after the U.S.’s far-fetched story about an Iranian plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador on U.S. soil.
The five suspects will be held in custody for 60 days while investigations continue. According to Bahrain’s state news service, they are being charged with forming a terror group, obstructing government institutions from functioning, and jeopardizing the Kingdom of Bahrain’s public security and territorial integrity. Bahraini authorities gave no further information or any evidence for their claims.
Iran has categorically denied the allegations and Bahrain’s majority Shias say they have no political links to Shia groups in Iran.
It would seem that Bahrain’s allegations are erratic attempts to blame the unrest on outside aggression, given that they also accused the Lebanon-based Shia group Hezbollah of being behind the foiled terror attack, accusations which Hezbollah denied as “baseless” and another “one of the fabrications [weaved] by the Al-Khalifa authoritarian regime in Bahrain.”
Bahrain continues to forcefully suppress the peaceful uprising, already having sentenced scores of people for anti-state crimes – just as the supposed terri cell is – such as trying to overthrow the ruling system.
i bet iran is also behind the conspiracy to litter my lawn and driveway with soggy autumn leaves so i slip and fall and hurt myself. Those evildoers will stop at nothing to hurt us!! Its a conspiracy I tell you !!
I am surprised by John Glaser's ignorance about religious & political facts in the Middle East. To clear things about Israeli intention to bomb Iran. In 2009 the foreign minster of Iran and the Lizard face Evigdor Leiberman of Israel were wining & dining at King Abdullah's palace for 3 days. No comment on what & why there were there.This is fact I know from my relative working there. Second you must understand the difference between Sunni & Shia. Sunnis are true followers of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Iran and its followers of Arabic shia are always the cause of troubles and back stabbing. They have been in fact the helpers of foreign invaders for centuries. The shia in Iraq orchestrated the invasion of Iraq by the American. Now pls I asked everybody to educate themselves about the history of the Middle East before they misjudge us.
have you been smoking the good hash?
The shia are the ones following the decendents of mohammad and are the ones who debate the interpretations of the holy quran to better understand its meanings. Hence the religious institutions in Qom.
Wahabis are mindless robots and should not even consider themselves Muslims. They are filled with hate and greed as displayed by the Gulf monarchies who have no problem indulging in sex romp weekends with eastern european hookers with drugs and alcohol, while still finding time to finance terrorists to kill americans like they did on 9-11
you dont think the reason the iraqi shia may have stood aside while the US invaded iraq was because they had been brutalized by Sadaam for decades.; That shia teenage girls were raped and burned alive by the hundreds in front of their parents by sadaams elite troops. that shia men were murdered by the tens of thousands by firings squads and buried in mass graves?
I think perhaps it is YOU who should educate himself on many things including the Quran and also the history of the middle east which you seem to know nothing about
I am sure you are brainless shia sheeple. You are like sheeps who follow there Mullahs without question. A mindless people who worship graves and humans. A pedophiles who rape new born children. Read the Khumeini's fatwa you dumbass brainless human. You claim the Quran is ultered while All (SWT) says We the one who revealed the thikr and we the one who protected it from alteration. I am sure you need a little education in Islam to awaken you to the truth. The shia are the ones who brought the Mongolians to Baghdad which caused the massacre of 2 millions Arab Muslims. They repeated the same thing when they brough the American again to Iraq which caused the death of another Million. No comment..your roots are Majousi the fire worshippers. You got nothing to do with Islam. A bunch of Pagans.
dear moderator, please do not remove this post. I think it serves a perfect example of the vitriol and ignorance of wahabis toward all people and religion, especially islam. as a reminder, it was the wahabis who attacked us on september 11. It is the wahabis who are selling us oil and using our money to kill us, the british, spaniards, indians, thais, australians, turks, russians, and mostly other ARABS etc etc in cowardly suicide bombings all around the world. if Islam is the hate and stupidity that this man espouses, then you dang right i got nothing to do with it
You keep proving your ignorance or your blind hatered to Sunni Muslim when you accuse them of doing 911, even though facts are out there on the clear. A child can understand what happened in 911, however, I still believe you got no brain at all because you follow your pedophile religious leaders.
Down with the oppressive monarchy dictatorships of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia!!!