FM links Awamiya backers to terror funders in region

Manama : Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa yesterday said that those who sympathises with the terrorists of Awamiya in Saudi Arabia are the same people who have sympathy for the terrorists in Bahrain.

“That who sympathises with the terrorists of Awamiya is the same who has sympathy for the terrorists in Bahrain, is the same who secured the payment of millions to terrorists in Iraq, and more is yet to be revealed,” Shaikh Khalid said in a twitter message posted on Thursday, referring to terrorist sympathisers in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Security Forces cleared out more than 90 per cent of the terrorists in Awamiya city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia in a sustained operation in the area where terrorists and wanted persons were holed up.