21.   The government has repeatedly accused Shiite Iran across the Gulf of being behind the violent campaign by Shiite activists demanding political reform and more jobs.

22.   The government has repeatedly accused Shiite Iran across the Gulf of being behind a violent campaign by Shiite activists demanding political reform and more jobs.

23.   The government has since repeatedly accused Shiite Iran across the Gulf of being behind a violent campaign by Shiite activists demanding political reform and more jobs.

24.   The secretive militant group was named for the founder of a Sunni radical allegedly assassinated by a rival Shiite activist.

25.   The Shiite activists were arrested Tuesday and Wednesday in Arrad, a village near the capital, Manama, the Bahrain Islamic Freedom Movement said.

26.   Two Bahraini opposition groups Wednesday accused Bahraini security forces of torturing to death a Shiite activist in detention.

27.   But authorities here, while never explicitly naming Iran, have indrectly denouced what they say has been Iranian influence on the local Shiite activists.

28.   They were being held in prison on charges of involvement in the murders of several Shiite activists.

29.   They included three shiite political activists whose party said they were shot dead for sectarian motives.

30.   On Monday two Shiite activists from Tehreek-i-Jafria were gunned down in Karachi.