{"id":13132,"date":"2012-10-05T15:06:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2012-10-05T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:06:42","slug":"bahrains-al-khalifa-regime-is-uk-protege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13132","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBahrain\u2019s Al Khalifa regime is UK protege\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jordanian lawyer: \u201cBahrain\u2019s Al Khalifa regime is UK protege\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n5 October, 2012 &#8211; Global Movement of Resistance<\/p>\n<p>Interviewing with the Al-Alam news channel, Jawad Younis, the Jordanian attorney, accused the ruling regime of the tiny Persian Gulf island state of being anti-human rights, stressing that the country\u2019s despotic government is trained by the UK intelligence agencies in repression, terrorism and rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the Al Khalifa regime\u2019s existence is fundamentally wrong and illegitimate, insisting that the the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) countries are attempting to handle affairs with the aim of supporting the US\u2019s conspiracy in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain, the home to the US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet, has been the scene of anti-regime demonstrations since February 2011, in which scores of people have been killed and many others arrested in the brutal Saudi-backed crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Katy Clark, the British Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, called on the UK government to review its relationship with the Bahraini regime, condemning Britain\u2019s failure to support pro-democracy campaigns that are demanding the downfall of the ruling Al Khalifa family. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nehzatejahani.com\/english\/jordanian-lawyer-bahrains-al-khalifa-regime-is-uk-protege\/\" target=\"_blank\">  &#8230;source<\/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%3D13132&amp;text=%E2%80%9CBahrain%E2%80%99s+Al+Khalifa+regime+is+UK+protege%E2%80%9D+&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordanian lawyer: \u201cBahrain\u2019s Al Khalifa regime is UK protege\u201d 5 October, 2012 &#8211; Global Movement of Resistance Interviewing with the Al-Alam news channel, Jawad Younis, the Jordanian attorney, accused the ruling regime of the tiny Persian Gulf island state of being anti-human rights, stressing that the country\u2019s despotic government is trained by the UK intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13132#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3583],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132"}],"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=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13134,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions\/13134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}