Death sentences and behind the bars….

Here we are today witnessing the verdict issued by the High Military Court in a case of an attempt to assassinate BDFs Commander-in-Chief and committing other terrorist crimes.

Eighteen members of a terrorist cell, 10 of whom appeared in custody and eight were fugitives in Bahrain or abroad in Iran and Iraq were given different sentences yesterday ranging from capital punishment, 15 years in jail and the revoking their Bahraini nationality. 

We have always called for the strictest yet fairest verdicts to be issued regarding people involved in terrorist acts and we do see the results today.

Two issues we need to closely look at here.

The fact that one of the convicted was a soldier and a few others were members of the dissolved Al Wefaq Islamic Party.

As much as it is interesting, it is not shocking to see member of Al Wefaq society involved.

They are the same party that has involved other member convicted of various crimes and behind prison bars now.

Al Wefaq was therefore neither an Islamic nor a political party.

And when its members are convicted of crimes, treason and terrorism, nothing more needs to be said or requires further analysis.

Fact number two is that one of the terrorists is a soldier. I won’t even go to the oath taken as a soldier because people with minds of terrorists know nothing about what an oath is all about.

Now going back to the verdicts issued on members of the cell living in Iran and Iraq, both countries in which Bahrainis were trained to commit acts of terrorism. These two countries stances towards Bahrain before, during and after our crisis have been extremely destructive.

And instead of paying attention to their own internal issues which we as a country never interfered in, they train our people to commit terrorist acts here.

Only two weeks ago I saw for myself what happened to Iraq. It is torn apart and their economy is destroyed. The political parties continue to tear it apart because they all want shares. Iran is a different issue. The revolutionary guard has managed to rule this country for 39 years now and Iran instead of enhancing its ties with its Gulf neighbors succeeded in becoming an enemy. Instead of focusing on its internal issues and giving their people a better standard of life, Irans supreme leader and its regime continues to harbor terrorists and train Bahrainis to commit acts of terrorism in Bahrain.

Finally, what we need to see soon is a different approach towards countries that harbor and train terrorists. This has to eventually stop.