{"id":13853,"date":"2012-11-06T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2012-11-06T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:00:15","slug":"us-state-department-negligently-out-of-touch-with-realities-on-the-ground-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13853","title":{"rendered":"US State Department negligently out-of-touch with realities ‘on the ground’ in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Dept. Concerned over Bahrain Violence, BICI Progress<\/strong>
\nPOMED – 5 Novemebr, 2012<\/p>\n

After an explosion claimed two lives in Bahrain, the U.S. State Department condemned the violence, saying, \u201cwe remain deeply concerned about the rise of tensions in Bahrain. Recent violence in Bahrain has claimed the lives of protesters, of security forces, of innocent bystanders, and all of this just undercuts the process of national reconciliation that we have strongly been urging on Bahrainis of all stripes for many, many months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The State Department spokesperson added, \u201cwe\u2019re concerned that a year has gone \u2013 almost a year has gone by [since the BICI report was released] and we\u2019ve only seen about half of the recommendations go forward and that dialogue is not going forward between the government and the opposition.\u201d While commenting on the presence of American John Timoney in Bahrain\u2019s police reform efforts, the spokesperson said, \u201cWe\u2019ve been concerned that these recommendations of the BICI, particularly in the area of police reform, have not been strongly enough implemented. It is one of the issues that we are continuing to urge on the Bahrainis, in terms of needing to really work on how the police respond to unrest, building a police force that\u2019s representative of all Bahrainis, and taking some of these other steps.\u201d
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State Dept. Concerned over Bahrain Violence, BICI Progress POMED – 5 Novemebr, 2012 After an explosion claimed two lives in Bahrain, the U.S. State Department condemned the violence, saying, \u201cwe remain deeply concerned about the rise of tensions in Bahrain. Recent violence in Bahrain has claimed the lives of protesters, of security forces, of innocent 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":[3297],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853"}],"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=13853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13854,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13853\/revisions\/13854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}