[4][5] From 2005 to 2007, he served as Director-General of the Northern Governorate Police Department, during which he intercepted a 35-person Shiite extremist cell aiming to blow up several Ministry buses and cars and kill policemen.
In July 2013, he was appointed Minister of State for Internal Affairs,[7] a post from which he was removed in December 2014 in a cabinet reshuffle before the third session of Parliament opened.
[8] In 2016, Al-Fadhel was promoted to Deputy Interior Minister, and in 2017 he was restored by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to the head of the BNSA as part of an effort to reorganize the agency.
[14] Jawad Fairooz, a former Council of Representatives member for the Shia opposition party Al Wefaq, stated that he was personally interrogated by Al-Fadhel upon his arrest by the BNSA in May 2011.
[16] The Ministry replied that “Najati operated without coordinating with the authorities and made clear his loyalties to Ali Al-Sistani without carrying the papers specifying his duties that such a representative must provide by law.”[17]