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| Bahrain Crown Prince Urges Talks with Opposition |
| 2012-12-08 |
| [An Nahar] Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa on Friday called on for dialogue with the mainly Shiite Moslem opposition in the Sunni-dominated country, urging them to condemn violence. "We had our own experience of the so-called Arab Spring last year. It divided the nation, and many wounds are still to be healed," the prince told delegates at the annual Manama Dialogue organized by the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet and strategically situated across the Gulf from Shiite Iran, has experienced unrest since February 2011, when Arab Spring-style protests led by the Shiite majority erupted. Hundreds of people were jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! when security forces aided by troops from neighboring Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... crushed the uprising within a month. The International Federation for Human Rights says 80 people have died in Bahrain since the unrest began. Salman, considered to be a moderate within the ruling dynasty, spoke after thousands of Shiites in a village near the capital demanded the premier's ouster in the first officially sanctioned protest since a ban at the end of October, witnesses said. |
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