Bahrein - Friend Of America

Robert Fisk on Bahrein In full here via Reality Zone

Christopher Hill, a former a US assistant secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and obsequious American diplomat – wrote the other day that “the notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable”. Unless, of course – and Mr Hill did not mention this – you happen to live in Bahrain. On this tiny island, a Sunni monarchy, the al-Khalifas, rule a majority Shia population and have responded to democratic protests with death sentences, mass arrests, the imprisonment of doctors for letting patients die after protests and an “invitation” to Saudi forces to enter the country. They have also destroyed dozens of mosques with all the thoroughness of a 9/11 pilot. But then, let’s remember that most of the 9/11 killers were Saudis.