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Bahraini King's bodyguards graduate from British army training course
Bahraini King's bodyguards pose for a photo

THE British army has now completed training a Gulf dictatorship’s all-female bodyguard unit, the Morning Star can reveal.

The training has taken place over the last month and involved at least eight soldiers from the Royal Military Police, most of them female.

A Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesperson told the Morning Star:

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