Bahrain investigating Shi'ite coup plot thought backed by Iran

[ErnstBlofeld]

GeoStrategy Direct:

 

Bahrain has detailed a Shi'ite coup plot in the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom.

Officials said the Interior Ministry has determined that a range of Shi'ite opposition elements planned a violent campaign to destabilize Bahrain. They said the 23 detainees were part of a network that was supported by a foreign country, believed to be Iran.

 

"This sophisticated terrorist network with operations inside and outside Bahrain has undertaken and planned a systematic and layered campaign of violence and subversion aimed squarely at undermining the national security of Bahrain," Bahrain prosecutor Abdul Rahman Al Sayed said on Sept. 5.

 

 

 

Edited September 23, 2010 by Rheo
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