Bahraini security detonates package of suspected explosives from UK

[smurfy]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16078729[/url]

[quote=BBC News][b]Bahrain says staff at its airport have detonated a package of suspected explosives sent from Britain via Dubai. The interior ministry is investigating.[/b]

The UK Foreign Office says it is aware of the reports and is checking them.

Officials in Bahrain have told the BBC they believe the device, which they say was sent from the UK, was a dummy to "test their defences".

Meanwhile, riot police in the capital Manama have clashed with protesters trying to reach a key landmark.

The Shia-majority protesters - who are demanding more rights from Bahrain's Sunni rulers - were trying to reach Pearl Square, the centre of demonstrations which erupted earlier this year.

[b]Blast near embassy[/b]

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says UK counter-terrorism police are working with the Bahraini authorities to investigate the device.

After detonating the package, Bahrain's ministry of interior said on its Twitter account: "Correction: after examining package at lab it turns the materials used aren't explosives, but contained tools used to make explosives".

On Sunday, Bahrain said an explosion outside the British embassy in the capital Manama was caused by a bomb placed under a vehicle nearby.

Last week, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a senior police officer who resigned from the Metropolitan Police earlier this year was going to Bahrain to help reform the police there.[/quote]

Well this is a bit of a role reversal

[wewt!]

Those god damn british going into our countries, stealing our jobs and corrupting our children with their terorrism!

[The fox]

[QUOTE=wewt!;33617015]Those god damn british going into our tea parties, stealing our scones and corrupting our tea with their monocles and tophats![/QUOTE]

fixed

Still, surprised explosives manage to find their way out of the UK, I would suspect in and outgoing packages are scanned for drugs, explosives etc? At least going out of the EU.

[wewt!]

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My friend got stopped at the airport in Iran the other day just for having a Manchester United shirt, this is profiling of the worst kind

I mean, just because he's british, does not mean he's a terrorist

[garychencool]

[QUOTE=wewt!;33617672]My friend got stopped at the airport in Iran the other day just for having a Manchester United shirt, this is profiling of the worst kindI mean, just because he's british, does not mean he's a terrorist[/QUOTE]Just because someone is from the middle east, it doesn't mean they are terrorists.

[Coffee]

[QUOTE=wewt!;33617672]My friend got stopped at the airport in Iran the other day just for having a Manchester United shirt, this is profiling of the worst kind

I mean, just because he's british, does not mean he's a terrorist[/QUOTE]

Iran sorta hates us at the moment.

[ElectricSquid]

[QUOTE=smurfy;33616526]
Well this is a bit of a role reversal[/QUOTE]

In Sovi-
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