{"id":1165,"date":"2011-04-29T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2011-04-29T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:13:44","slug":"obama-sends-more-underlings-with-hollow-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Obama sends more underlings with hollow words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US raps Bahrain over speed of trial<br \/>\nAFP \u2013 Fri Apr 29, 4:38 pm ET<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AFP) \u2013 The United States on Friday criticized Bahrain over the speed of a trial in which Shiite pro-democracy protesters were sentenced to death and life in prison for killing two policemen.<\/p>\n<p>State Department Policy Planning Director Jacob Sullivan also said Washington has urged Bahrain at the highest levels to move toward &#8220;a comprehensive political dialogue&#8221; to end the political unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan criticized a Bahraini military court over the speed with which it sentenced four Shiite protesters to death and three to life in prison Thursday for the killing of two policemen at a crackdown on a pro-democracy rally.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110429\/pl_afp\/bahrainpoliticsunresttrialus_20110429203806\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D1165&amp;text=Obama+sends+more+underlings+with+hollow+words&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US raps Bahrain over speed of trial AFP \u2013 Fri Apr 29, 4:38 pm ET WASHINGTON (AFP) \u2013 The United States on Friday criticized Bahrain over the speed of a trial in which Shiite pro-democracy protesters were sentenced to death and life in prison for killing two policemen. State Department Policy Planning Director Jacob Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1165#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[763,762],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}