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Title: Saudi Arabia sends tanks to riot-hit Bahrain – paper
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Ria Novosti
URL Source: http://en.rian.ru/world/20110301/162803894.html
Published: Mar 1, 2011
Author: Unknown
Post Date: 2011-03-01 17:57:15 by Phant2000
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Comments: 9
Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of tanks to Bahrain, where anti-government protests continue for about two weeks, Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses reported seeing "15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each heading towards Bahrain" along the 25-km King Fahd causeway, which links the small island nation of Bahrain to Saudi Arabia. Protestors are mainly Shiites account for about 70% of the Bahraini population, but have long complained of discrimination and other abuses by the Sunni Khalifa dynasty that has ruled the tiny Gulf nation for more than two centuries. In the worst unrest in the kingdom since the 1990s, a wave of protests swept across Bahrain in the past weeks. At least six people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes with police. Opposition threatens to hold more protests and a nationwide strike if the government refuses to resign.
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#1. To: Phant2000 (#0)
It is becoming clear that the Saudi royal family holds the true reigns of power in Bahrain, and not anyone in Bahrain. As seen in Libya, nothing can create a revolution faster than invading a nation with mercenaries to slaughter the local populations.
Yes, and it has been that way since the early 70s.
Maybe tomorrow we willsee US tanks in Libya. We have several olde bases there, be right at home.
If the evildoers want us there, we will be there. Sad commentary on our republic.
halliburton is in da house.
We first roosted in Libya in 1943 and did not leave til the 1970s. Wheelus AB was called little America.
Again, thanks for the history you share with all of us.
There were no vid-cell phones and the internet in the 70s. The local Bahrain forces already backed off from the protesters.
Is fun to speculate if there had been how it would/could have changed what we now see.
Saudi Arabia has sent dozens of tanks to Bahrain, where anti-government protests continue for about two weeks, Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper said on Tuesday.
#2. To: PaulCJ (#1)
It is becoming clear that the Saudi royal family holds the true reigns of power in Bahrain, and not anyone in Bahrain.
#3. To: Phant2000 (#2)
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
Maybe tomorrow we willsee US tanks in Libya.
#5. To: Phant2000 (#4)
If the evildoers want us there, we will be there
#6. To: Phant2000 (#4)
#7. To: Cynicom (#6)
We first roosted in Libya in 1943 and did not leave til the 1970s.
#8. To: Phant2000 (#2)
#9. To: PaulCJ (#8)
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There were no vid-cell phones and the internet in the 70s.
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