{"id":16005,"date":"2013-01-31T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16005"},"modified":"2013-01-31T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:58:40","slug":"bahrian-moi-conjures-imagery-of-sophitcated-remote-control-bombing-against-its-militarized-saudi-sponsored-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16005","title":{"rendered":"Bahrian MOI conjures imagery of sophitcated remote control bombing against its Militarized Saudi Sponsored Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Policemen hurt by home-made bomb in Bahrain: government<\/strong><br \/>\n31 January, 2013 &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Several policemen were injured when a home-made bomb exploded at a roundabout west of the Bahraini capital Manama on Wednesday, the prime minister was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa said the explosion happened at Budaiya Highway &#8220;leaving a number of policemen injured whilst on duty&#8221;, the official Bahrain News Agency reported late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Interior message on Twitter put the number of wounded at three and described the device as remotely-detonated and home-made. Both the ministry and Sheikh Khalifa described the explosion as a &#8220;terror&#8221; incident.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini police say they have been the target of numerous attacks with homemade bombs since April 2012, including one that killed a policeman in October.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunni Muslim-dominated government has been struggling since early last year to end pro-democracy unrest led mainly by the Gulf Arab kingdom&#8217;s majority Shi&#8217;ite Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Five home-made bombs killed two people in Bahrain on November 5, and the U.S.-aligned government said the attacks bore the hallmarks of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group allied with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran dismisses Bahraini accusations of involvement in the political unrest. Hezbollah also denies involvement, but has criticized the government&#8217;s handling of protests.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Khalifa said that Bahrain would remain stable and its citizens &#8220;would foil any terror plot targeting Bahrain to subvert its security,&#8221; BNA reported.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/31\/us-bahrain-bomb-idUSBRE90U09H20130131\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D16005&amp;text=Bahrian+MOI+conjures+imagery+of+sophitcated+remote+control+bombing+against+its+Militarized+Saudi+Sponsored+Police+Force&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policemen hurt by home-made bomb in Bahrain: government 31 January, 2013 &#8211; Reuters (Reuters) &#8211; Several policemen were injured when a home-made bomb exploded at a roundabout west of the Bahraini capital Manama on Wednesday, the prime minister was quoted as saying. Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa said the explosion happened at Budaiya Highway &#8220;leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16005#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3955],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16007,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions\/16007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}