Six get death for BDF Commander-in-Chief murder attempt
Manama : The Military High Court yesterday sentenced six persons to death for forming a terrorist cell and plotting to assassinate BDF Commander-in-Chief and other terror crimes. The court also sentenced them to 15 years in jail and revoked their Bahraini nationality.
The men sentenced to capital punishment are: Mubarak Adel Mubarak Mahanna (Soldier); Fadhel Al Sayed Abbas Hassan Radhi; Sayed Alawi Hussain Alawi Hussain; Mohammed Abdulhassan Ahmed Al Metghawi; Murtada Majeed Ramadan Alawi (Al Sindi); and Habeeb Abdullah Hassan Ali (Al Jamri).
Only 10 of the defendants are in custody while the other eight are on the run — either inside Bahrain or in Iran or Iraq, said a statement. A total of 18 men were involved in the terror case.
“The defendants were accused with the formation of a terrorist cell, attempting to assassinate the BDF Commander-in-Chief and committing other terrorist crimes,” said a statement.
One of the sentenced was a serving soldier before his arrest and that all six were also stripped of their citizenship. The military court also convicted and sentenced seven others to seven years in jail and stripped them of their Bahraini nationality.
They are: Mohammed Abdulhassan Saleh Al Shehabi; Mohammed Abdulwahid Mohammed Al Najjar; Hussain Mohammed Ahmed Shehab; Mohammed Yousef Marhoon Al Ajmi; Hussain Ali Mohsen Baddaw; Sayed Mohammed Qassim Mohammed; and Ali Jaffar Hassan Al Rayes.
The court also acquitted five accused. They are: Ali Ahmed Khalifa Salman (Al Karbabadi); Hussain Essam Hussain Al Durazi; Muntazhir Fawzi Abdulkareem Mahdi; Rami Ahmed Ali Al Aryash; and Mohamed Abdullah Ebrahim Abbas.
All the judicial sureties were granted by the Military Judiciary in compliance with the 2002 Criminal Procedures Law and the 2002 Military Judiciary Law, including access to defence lawyers.
“The defendants have the right to challenge the ruling of the court of the first instance at the Military Appeals High Court and the Military Court of Cassation, according to the provisions of the law.
Representatives of human rights institutions and societies and media and several relatives of the defendants attended the court session.
According to case files, the murder conspiracy was hatched in 2016 when security services involved in combating terrorism received intelligence about the existence of a terrorist cell planning a major terror act. Intensive investigations of the cell revealed that it was being funded by terrorist elements residing in Iran and Iraq, headed by Murtada Majid Ramadan Alawi (Al-Sindi), who was sentenced in 9 terrorist cases, including two life sentences in the two cases of conspiracy and establishment of a terrorist organization, which planned to assassinate the Commander-in-Chief of the Bahrain Defense Force, with the assistance of Habib Abdullah Hassan (Al Jamri) and Ali Ahmed Khalifa (Karbabadi). The terror cell involved 18 members who were sentenced for previous terror acts.
Security forces at the BDF involved in combatting terrorism monitored terrorist elements and identified places where they received their military training, including shooting and vandalism training, and places where they hid weapons. Eleven suspects were arrested and 8 others were found to have fled.
Members of the cell initially targeted an individual to exploit for the attempted assassination of the Commander-in-Chief. Mubarak Adel Mubarak Muhanna was chosen by the cell as he he had already completed his military training five months ago. Mubarak’s drug abuse background made it easier to get recruited. He was later tempted with money and women which enabled the cell to persuade him to carry out the task by using his military weapon and to engage in military exercises for the members of the terrorist cell, where he was paid for every training he attended. He also participated in demonstrations and riots against the police as well as religious events and parades. The cell promised to give him 100 000 Bahraini dinars, in case he succeeded in executing the operation, whether the assassination of the Commander-in-Chief or injuring him.
He then began executing the initial stages of the operation after receiving an amount of 1000 dinars and two phones received from the accused Sayed Alawi Hussein Alawi .
In the confessions of the accused, it was revealed that the cell consisted of four groups, beginning with the leadership of Mortada al-Sindi, Habib al-Jamri, and then the preparation and planning group, Muhammad Kazem Mohsen Ali Nasser, who died during his attack on the police forces during the clearance of Deraz on May 24, Murtada al-Sindi, who is in Iran, and Habib al-Jamri, who is in Iraq.
Sindi asked him to communicate with Mohammed al-Metghawi, “the second person in the planning and planning group” to recruit terrorist elements to carry out the assassination.
Almetghawi is considered to be an active member of the dissolved Al-Wefaq Society and is known as the “leader of the assassination” based on the instructions sent to him by Murtada al-Sindi from Iran and Habib al-Jamri in Iraq, who established and managed the terrorist cell.
He also provided the cell with funds and the necessary tools to carry out the operations required of them. He has several precedents in the cases of gathering and assaulting policemen .
The Field execution group consisted of Alawi Hussein Alawi, a member of the Al-Wefaq Society, who is the field commander and who established and managed the terrorist cell.
The second defendant, Fadil Al-Sayyed Abbas, chose the first accused, Mubarak Adel, to carry out the assassination. He also participated in acts of vandalism and riot against security forces. He also had criminal precedents.
Fadhil al-Sayyed Abbas, the recruitment officer of the terrorist cell, chose the first defendant, Mubarak Adel, and is considered the first defendant in the case to carry out the assassination.
The terrorist training group, led by Mohammad Hassan Almetghawi and Alawi Hussain Alawi, was composed of 13 people. Its leaders and 8 others were arrested, while 5 were remaining. Some of the accused were found to belong to terrorist organizations Al-Ashtar and Al-Mukhtar cells. Asbaghiyat newspaper has revealed that the 12th defendant Mohammed Yousef Marhoun Al-Ajmi, nicknamed Dabas, was sentenced to 124 years in prison and 46 years in prison for the accused Rami Ali Ahmed (Al-Aryash) .
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