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Bahraini authorities foiled a terrorist plot planned by a militant cell trained in Iraq, Bahrain's interior ministry said Sunday.
In a statement carried by Bahrain News Agency, BNA, the ministry said that investigations have led to the arrest of individuals and field commanders involved in perpetrating terrorist acts in the kingdom under Saraya Al Ashtar, a blacklisted anti-government group.
The statement said those arrested confirmed they are members of the militant group.
Some of those arrested were assigned to form a terrorist group targeting policemen.
Saraya Al Ashtar was formed in late 2012 by two individuals - Ahmed Yousef Sarhan, 26, ( codenamed Abu Muntazar ) and Jassim Ahmed Abdullah, 39 (codename Zulfiqar ) - who are now fugitives in Iran, according to BNA.
Both militants have been accused of organising terror operations in Bahrain and recruiting individuals to join Saraya al-Ashtar, the agency said.
In late 2014, they reportedly sent recruits to Iraq to receive military by a militant terrorist group called Hezbollah Brigades on the use of Kalashnikov guns, PKC machine guns, C4 and TNT explosives, abduction, sniping, shooting, handling guns, sights, mortars, fuses and detonators.
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