MANAMA // Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said it has arrested two Gulf Arab citizens, who were former Guantanamo detainees, suspected of plotting “terror” attacks against the island kingdom.
The two Gulf nationals tried to enter Bahrain with forged passports through King Fahd Causeway, which joins Bahrain to Saudi Arabia, and were “carrying a large amount of money”, the ministry said late on Saturday.
A police chief, quoted by official news agency BNA, said the two suspects, whose names and nationalities were not disclosed, had entered Bahrain with fake passports from Saudi Arabia.
“The initial investigation revealed that the arrestees are former detainees of the Guantanamo detention center. They are suspected of plotting a terror act to jeopardise the security and safety of Bahrain,” the ministry said in a statement.
The statement did not elaborate on the nature of the planned attacks or the identities of the two people arrested.
*Reuters and Agence France-Presse