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Bahrain Smashes Terror Cell Planning to Kill Top Officials

by VOA News

   Authorities in Bahrain say they have smashed a terror cell responsible
   for last month's bus attack and planning to murder senior officials.

   The state-run news agency quoted interior ministry officials Sunday as
   saying 14 people were arrested.

   The officials say the suspects were backed by two exiled Bahrainis
   living in Iran. Some of the suspects were trained by the Iranian
   Revolutionary Guard or Iraqi terrorists.

   Bahraini officials say those arrested Sunday were responsible for the
   February 26 bus bombing in Bahrain that wounded five policemen.

   Tension has been simmering in the Shi'ite-led kingdom since the Arab
   Spring uprisings of 2011 when the government began cracking down on
   protesters demanding free elections.