Terror group investigations completed

 Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi the Head of Anti-terror Prosecution said investigations were completed regarding the case of formation of a terrorist organization in breach of the law.
Sixty suspects, including 24 in absentia, were referred to the relevant court on charges of forming and joining a terrorist organization, while they were aware of its terrorist purposes, training on the use of weapons and explosives to carry out terrorist attacks, deliberately murdering policemen and importing and possessing explosives, firearms and ammunition.

They carried out armed robberies to finance their terrorist plans and attacked law enforcement officers. They also assisted and harboured convicts and runaway inmates.
The High Criminal Court decided to consider the case on August 22 .
According to the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID)’s minutes of investigation, the case involves the escape of ten inmates from the Reform and Rehabilitation Centre in Jau Prison on January 1. The inmates’ escape resulted in the death of a prison guard.

Investigations unraveled the terrorist group formed by suspects and others who jointed its membership, including 12 suspects still at large in Iran and Iraq, one suspect in Germany and 46 suspects in Bahrain, including the ten convicted inmates who escaped from Jau prison facility.

The leaders and members of the group prepared and planned several terrorist crimes for the purpose of destabilizing public order and undermining the Kingdom’s security and national unity as well as obstructing public authorities from carrying out their official duties. To achieve their plot, the suspects were responsible for the following crimes:

They acquired and hid machineguns and explosives seized on a speedboat at Nabih Saleh as well as explosive, weapons and ammunitions they stored in Sitra and seized on December 1 last year.
They attacked the Jau Reform and Rehabilitation Centre and enabled the escape of several convicted inmates involved in terrorist crimes which resulted in the death of a policeman and injuries of several others.
They also stole weapons on January 1.
They carried out the gunfire attack that targeted a police patrol and wounded one policeman in Bani Jamra on January 14.
They assassinated a police officer in Bilad Al Qadeem on January 28 in front of his private farm.
They attempted to escape outside the country, resisted arrest and fired at the police inside the Kingdom’s territorial waters that ended in the death of three members of the terrorist group on February 9.

Investigations indicated they had formed and established the terrorist group and that the wanted fugitives hiding in Iran and Iraq communicated with the group’s members inside the Kingdom in the prison and outside it to recruit other members. They supplied them with explosives, firearms and ammunition of various types after smuggling them into the country. They supplied them with the necessary cash for personal expenses and to finance the terrorist activities. They also trained alongside their co-members in Iran and Iraq on the use of weapons, explosives in the military camps of Iranian revolutionary guard (IRGC) to get ready to implement their terrorist crimes in Bahrain.

The group leaders also supplied members with the plans to commit terrorist operations and gave them the tools, weapons and explosives to carry out their plot. They also gave them the means to record the prison escape with drones in order to publicize the escape for propaganda purposes.

The security agencies arrested the suspects in accordance with the provisions of the Law for Protection of the Society against Acts of Terrorism and searched their homes and their warehousing places. The security operation led to the seizure of large quantities of explosives, detonators, hand grenades, explosive molds, Kalashnikov machineguns, pistols, ammunitions cars and boats used by the defendants in implementing the terrorist crimes and smuggling.

Thirty-six defendants were arrested, questioned by the Public Prosecution some of whom confessed to having committed the crimes ascribed to them. The Public Prosecution examined the crime locations used by the defendants in storing weapons, explosive substances and the materials they used to make them.

Photographic images and the suspects’ statements as well the technical and medical checkup results were included in the case documents.

Source: Fana News