The Stench

So the Saudis host one of their favorite terrorist children, Ahrar Al-Sham, in Riyadh after telling the lousy Jordanian wimp not to put that group of terrorists on the so-called List of Arab Sunni Terrorist Groups he's supposedly compiling. Al Nusrah Front is deliberately kept off the list, too, as it's also preferred by the Saudis, Qataris, Turks, the Israelis and the warmonger and so-called R2P elements of the U.S. decision-making apparatus. The long-prevailing explanation to the low-information public is that ousting Assad is necessary to get rid of ISIS, ISIL, DAESH. The fact that the so-called coalition didn't have much success against the terrorists fed that notion. Then the Syrian state got some serious help from its friends against the Sunni Wahhabist goons and their various backers who want to destroy the state for their various and well-known reasons amongst those who pay attention.

No matter the aroma of Mo Nayef and Mo Salman, the stench of Bandar bin Sultan wafts widely.

Phony 1981 Coup Attempt in Bahrain

 It wasn't some "fringe radical Shia Islamist group" responsible for the so-called 1981 coup attempt in Bahrain. It was a carefully written bit of theatre. 

There are scholars who claim expertise on some aspects of life in Bahrain, who expand on the Wikipedia article on the coup attempt in December 1981, even write books about it. Well-sourced books, even, saying the responsibility is with some "Iran-supported fringe radical Shia Islamist group."

The December coup was preceded by your own coup attempt against your father shortly after I left the island in March. The lure, the plants and the practice for a fictional terrorist operation.

I haven't seen anyone who grew up on the island and is now an academic write about THAT unsuccessful coup.