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Dubai Deputy Police Chief Says Hizbullah Trained Bahraini Bomb Attacker, Party Denies
2014-03-05
[An Nahar] Dubai's police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan slammed on Tuesday the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and its ally Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
a day after a bomb kaboom in Bahrain killed three coppers, including an Emirati.

However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
Hizbullah "categorically" denied Khalfan's allegation, saying in a statement issued in the evening that "this claim is totally unfounded."

"The suspect, who planted the bomb, has visited Leb and was trained by Hizbullah on carrying out bombings," Khalfan said via his Twitter account.

"The suspect who is involved in assassinating Emirati First Lieutenant Tariq al-Shehi doesn't reside in an area far from the site of the kaboom."

On Monday, "three police personnel died in a terror blast in (the Shiite-populated village) Daih while police were dispersing rioters," Bahrain's interior ministry said on Twitter.

And the interior ministry in the United Arab Emirates said an officer from its police force was among the dead.

Shehi, who was part of a force established as part of common Gulf security pact, died along with two members of the Bahraini police force "while performing his national duty of maintaining order," said the UAE interior ministry.

He is the first Gulf officer reported to have been killed since forces from the region rolled into Bahrain in March 2011 to boost the kingdom's security forces, which later quelled the month-long uprising.

Bahrain has always maintained the Gulf force did not take part in confrontations with protesters and have been deployed to protect vital installations.

Khalfan also considered in a tweet that the Iranian-backed Bahraini opposition "became an enemy of the Gulf states and a close fried of Persians."

He pointed out that "an addition 1,000 Emirati policeman should be sent to Bahrain so that the enemies of the Arab Gulf understand that security in Bahrain involves us all."

The Shiite-dominated opposition swiftly condemned Monday's bombing, stressing any political demands had to be voiced in a "peaceful" manner.
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