Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States of America, Shaikh Abdullah bin Rashed Al Khalifa, gave a lecture on the security challenges facing the Kingdom of Bahrain at the Belfer Centre of the Canadian College at Harvard University, which is considered the most prominent university intellectual Center in the world.
The Ambassador stressed the importance of security cooperation between the Kingdom of Bahrain and its international allies, led by the United States of America, to tackle the scourge of terrorism and extremism on national, regional and international levels, and that such security cooperation is no less important than defence cooperation between countries.
As for the security challenges facing the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Ambassador talked about the diversity of the security challenges posed by some terrorist and extremist groups that were trained and supported by money and equipment by the Iranian regime, as evidenced by the quality of the confiscated weapons as well as the methods followed by such groups, as it is sometimes identical to the same terrorist organizations supported by the Iranian regime in the region.
He explained that the attacks carried out by such terrorist and extremist groups, ranging from the use of Molotov cocktails, improvised explosive devices which is considered more complex, and the Kingdom of Bahrain witnessed the worst terrorist attack in its history using such explosive devices in 2014, which led to the death of Four of martyrs of duty, he added that the operations of such terrorist groups have witnessed a qualitative shift involving the use of drones, such as in the process of storming a prison in the southern area, which led to the death of one policeman and the escape of ten terrorists.
In conclusion, the Ambassador affirmed that the reform approach of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was a safety valve for the Bahraini society against extremism and terrorism, and in light of this approach, the Ministry of Interior adopted 90 initiatives within the national plan to promote Nationalism and the consolidation of the values of citizenship in order to face foreign attempts exotic to the Kingdom, which seeks to consecrate sectarianism by preserving the inherent values of Bahraini society.
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