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Arabia

'US complicit in Bahrain crackdown'

2011-04-15

[Iran Press TV] The United States has collaborated with the deadly crackdown on the popular revolution against Bahrain's despotic monarchy, says a notable Bahraini human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activist.

"People in Bahrain think that the US is in one way or another directly complicit in what's happening in Bahrain," said Maryam al-Khawaja of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, in a Press TV interview.

Dozens of people have been killed and thousands of others injured since February 14, when the public started a popular revolution against the royal family that has been ruling the island for over 40 years.

Led by Soddy Arabia, Bahrain's Arab neighbors from the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council deployed troops to the country in mid-March to reinforce brutal armed attacks against anti-government protesters. The reinforcements have reportedly contributed to a major hike in the use of extreme violence against popular protests.

Khawaja said Washington's complicity with Bahrain's state violence was shown in remarks by the US Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ...
, who had "actually said that Bahrain has the sovereign right to invite the [P]GCC troops into the country."

"But legally and according to the agreement between the [P]GCC countries, these forces are supposed to be used for foreign threats," she emphasized.

Posted by:Fred

#3 An example - from Michael Ledeen 9/14/2010:
Moreover, there have been some open gunfights here and there, with casualties running well over 100. To round out this very ugly picture, the nastiest elements of the regime have been murdering their opponents. If you follow the reports, you will see that many people are being executed every day, and there are events far more terrible than those that have been reported. In the past five months, some seven hundred dissident Revolutionary Guards and Basiji have been executed under the guise of drug smugglers, and there is even worse than that: in the past few days about 30 dissident RGs in the Mashhad prison were told they had been forgiven, and would be reintegrated into the ranks. They were put on a bus and fed food and (poisoned) drinks. When they passed out they were dumped into a mass grave and buried, more or less alive. Astonishingly someone saw it, and reported it, and some fifty security officials are now being interrogated.

Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 15:09

#2 What is in the drinking water over there?

Iran is playing the win. The ends justify the means.

Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 15:02

#1 What is in the drinking water over there?

That has to be the most delusional thing out of Iran in at least fifteen minutes.

Are they all on crack over there? Oh never mind.

Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-04-15 13:29

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