{"id":13851,"date":"2012-11-06T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13851"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T17:50:52","slug":"bahrain-regime-should-look-to-their-masters-in-saudia-arabia-for-answers-in-bombing-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13851","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain regime should look to their Masters in Saudia Arabia for answers in bombing offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Officials call bomb blasts that killed 2 in Bahrain terrorism<\/strong><br \/>\nNewsist &#8211; 5 November, 2012 <\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain \u2013  A series of bomb blasts in Bahrain\u2019s capital killed two people Monday, authorities said, a sign that some factions within the opposition may be increasingly turning to violence in the nearly 21-month uprising against the Gulf nation\u2019s Western-backed rulers.<\/p>\n<p>The apparently coordinated string of five explosions in Manama \u2014 described by officials as \u201cterrorism\u201d \u2014 comes less than a week after Bahrain banned all protest gatherings in attempts to quell the deepening unrest in the strategic kingdom, which is home the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Clashes have not eased, including crowds pelting three police stations with firebombs early Sunday. More than 55 people have been killed Bahrain\u2019s unrest since February 2011 as the nation\u2019s majority Shiites press for a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also suggested three could be crackdowns against Shiite religious leaders, and that could sharply intensify the clashes. Government spokeswoman Sameera Rajab blamed the attacks on statements by some Shiite \u201creligious figures who haven\u2019t ceased inciting violence against civilians and police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said authorities would show \u201czero tolerance\u201d in its efforts to stamp out unrest.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s violence, two Asian men were killed and a third person was injured as at least five homemade explosive devices were detonated, the Interior Ministry said. One man died after kicking a bomb and triggered an explosion, and the other died from injuries in a separate blast, officials said, but they did not immediately give names or nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>Like all Gulf Arab countries, Bahrain has a large South Asian community of expatriate workers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsits.com\/news\/world-news\/officials-call-bomb-blasts-that-killed-2-in-bahrain-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#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%3D13851&amp;text=Bahrain+regime+should+look+to+their+Masters+in+Saudia+Arabia+for+answers+in+bombing+offensive&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials call bomb blasts that killed 2 in Bahrain terrorism Newsist &#8211; 5 November, 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain \u2013 A series of bomb blasts in Bahrain\u2019s capital killed two people Monday, authorities said, a sign that some factions within the opposition may be increasingly turning to violence in the nearly 21-month uprising against the Gulf nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13851#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":[3667],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851"}],"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=13851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13852,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}