Bahrain blacklisted three anti-government groups as terrorist organizations on Tuesday, a day after a bomb killed two local policemen and an officer from the United Arab Emirates, state news agency BNA said. The attack has raised fears of more violence in the Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdom, where opposition groups led by majority Shiites have staged protests for the past three years demanding political reform and an end to perceived discrimination. The cabinet, meeting in emergency session in Manama, put the so-called February 14 movement, Saraya al-Ashtar (Ashtar Brigade) and Saraya al-Muqawama (Resistance Brigade) and any group associated or allied to them on lists of terrorist groups, BNA said. ... Saraya al-Muqawama is also little-known, but the February 14 movement has been organizing anti-government protests since the security forces crushed the mass demonstrations of February-March 2011 with help from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. ===================== Judging by the names, at least two of those three groups are (or would certainly like to be) armed.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:34:52 +0000
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