169 face trial for setting up Hizbollah branch in Bahrain

The 169 suspects in the case of formation of the so-called “Bahraini Hizbollah” terror group will face trial before the Fourth High Criminal Court on October 3, Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution Dr. Ahmed Al Hammadi said yesterday.

The suspects, including 111 in custody, were charged with forming and joining a terrorist group, detonating a bomb, attempting murder, training on the use of firearms and explosives and handling, possessing, making and using explosives and firearms and transfer.

Other charges included receiving and giving money allocated to the terrorist group, hiding ammunition and explosives and damaging public and private property. The Public Prosecution had received a report from the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) regarding the formation of a terrorist cell inside Bahrain at the behest of Iranian regime leaders who issued their orders to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to unify the elements of various terrorist factions that carry out terror attacks in Bahrain, it is learnt. Orders included holding intensive meetings with the leaders of the terrorist groups and movements in Iran and coordinate with trained terrorist elements in other countries and providing various forms of financial, logistic and technical support to unite them under the banner of a single terrorist organization, the so-called “Bahraini Hizbollah.”

The purpose of the merger is to activate all affiliated terrorists who had received military training over the years and who were planted as dormant cells in order to use their capabilities and to offset the shortage in militarily trained leaders in Bahrain because of the arrest of most of them or the escape of some of them abroad.

They were to share their military training on how to use weapons and make or implant explosives and detonate them remotely as well as their experience in setting up secret warehouses in houses and farms and other locations and smuggling, transporting, and hiding weapons and ammunition, materials and tools to manufacture homemade bombs.