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Bahrain jails 13 over bid to burn police station
2011-10-06
[Dawn] A Bahraini special court on Wednesday sentenced 13 Shia's to five years in jail for trying to set ablaze a cop shoppe during democracy protests, the chief military prosecutor said.

The National Safety Court, set up by the Sunni-ruled kingdom after Shia-led protests were crushed in March, gave six other demonstrators one-year terms in the same case, Colonel Yusof Fleifel said, quoted by BNA state news agency.

The group had been charged with attempting to burn down Al-Khamees cop shoppe close to Manama's Pearl Square, the focal point of anti-regime protests inspired by the Arab Spring.

The protesters had "prepared Molotov cocktails" and blocked the streets leading to the centre with blocks of concrete and garbage containers, but security forces managed to stop them from setting the station on fire, BNA said.

They were also accused of taking part in public gatherings "with intent to commit crimes and breach security," it added.

The condemned would be able to appeal the sentences at a civil court, the military prosecutor said, in line with a pledge by King Hamad
...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite...
The National Safety Court, which has a mixed military and civil panel, has in the past four days sentenced more than 100 people to jail for various convictions over the month-long protests.

The quasi-military court has sentenced to death at least five Shia's for killing coppers and many more are still being tried for other alleged offences, among them opposition leaders and medics.

Authorities said in May that 405 detainees had been referred to courts, while 312 were released.
Posted by:Fred

#11  You wouldn't ever do that, dear USN, Ret. You are a gentleman.

Lotp, a definite improvement.

Barbara, you are, as ever, a darling. But the scansion isn't anywhere near good enough...I'd have to change the scrofulous for scruffy scrotty would do -- the same feel and the two syllables stressed on the first in the second line because of the impure...but after that it all falls to pieces, I'm afraid.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-10-06 23:33  

#10  Note to self:
It's OK to knock Gorb off his bike,
It's OK to make fun of ARCLIGHT strikes,
But don' evah, evah, EVAH, piss off that lil'ol' Trailing Wife.
Evah.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2011-10-06 22:19  

#9  "Scrofulous impure little pissant", to be specific.
Posted by: lotp   2011-10-06 20:35  

#8  "Who is we, you scrofulous little pissant?"

Damn, that's downright poetic, tw! You go, girl. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2011-10-06 13:14  

#7  You can identify this particular Moby Dick, emphasis on the Dick, by the prominent hump on it's forehead.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-10-06 12:58  

#6  CAPTAIN! OFF THE STARBOARD BOW! IT'S A WHITE!!!! OOPS, A BEIGE! A BEIGE WHALE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-10-06 11:43  

#5  Any non-Israelis with an opinion on the matter should feel free to share it as well. I don't mean to discriminate on the basis of nationality in this matter.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-10-06 11:00  

#4  Watch for Captain Ahab, I4J. He's got your number.
Posted by: Fred   2011-10-06 10:59  

#3  
"Our rule"? Who is we, you scrofulous little pissant? The Americans, a mostly Christian nation, are not ruled by either the Jews who are their citizens or by Israel, a situation that is just fine with all involved. Nor do Israelis aspire to "run these people", as you so revealingly put it -- have you even got so far from home as London, you ignorant, parochial clod? You are neither a Jew nor an Israeli, and if your father fought in Lebanon it was for the other side, although I doubt he ever got closer to soldiering than sitting on the next stool down 't pub. Blood will tell, as they say. I'm going to leave your posts in the sink trap, so that if one of our real Israelis pokes his head in, he can weigh in on the question. Gentlemen, I expect your responses to this stupid poseur to be suitable for the poison he has attempted to insert in Rantburg veins, Moby that he is.

-- trailing wife, moderator
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-10-06 10:44  

#2  The troll moved to a new coffee shop.
Posted by: Pollyandrew   2011-10-06 09:33  

#1  The US has a large base in Bahrain to defend the cause of freedom. :)

Can't trust these people to run themselves. Either they live under our rule, or they must be exterminated.
Posted by: Israel4Jews   2011-10-06 08:48  

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