JEDDAH: A terror cell planning attacks against the Saudi Embassy, the King Fahd Causeway and other vital installations in Bahrain has been broken up, a Bahraini Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
Four members of the cell were detained in Qatar and turned over to Manama, while a fifth Bahraini was arrested inside the country, said Gen. Tareq Al-Hasan.
The alleged targets also included the Bahraini Interior Ministry and other individuals. Al-Hasan said the four arrested in Qatar had been traveling by car from Saudi Arabia. Security officers at a checkpoint seized "documents and a computer containing information of a security nature (and) details on certain vital sites." They were also carrying US dollars and Iranian rials.
The four confessed that they had left Bahrain illegally at the instigation of others and gone to Iran to form an "organization to commit armed terrorist acts in Bahrain," the spokesman said. The four, who were sent back to Manama on Nov. 4, named a fifth accomplice, who was subsequently arrested, and the five have been turned over to the judicial authorities. |