{"id":15984,"date":"2013-01-29T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:20:27","slug":"bahrain-oppositon-no-dialogue-with-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15984","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Oppositon, No Dialogue with Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain clashes show divides over proposed talks<\/strong><br \/>\nBy REEM KHALIFA &#8211; Associated Press &#8211; 24 January, 2013<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and stun grenades at anti-government protesters whose chants included calls to reject proposed talks aimed at easing nearly two years of unrest in the Gulf nation.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s clashes were relatively small, with several hundred protesters demonstrating near Sitra, south of the capital Manama. But they highlight the divides among Bahrain\u2019s Shiite-led opposition over whether to accept the Sunni monarchy\u2019s offers for dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Appeals to open talks have received a cautious endorsement from main Shiite opposition groups in the strategic nation, which is home to the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet. Other anti-government factions, including youth groups, appear to oppose dialogue, claiming the Sunni leadership is unwilling to give up power.<\/p>\n<p>More than 55 people have been killed in the unrest.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/2013\/01\/24\/bahrain-clashes-show-divides-over-proposed-talks\" 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%3D15984&amp;text=Bahrain+Oppositon%2C+No+Dialogue+with+Killers&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain clashes show divides over proposed talks By REEM KHALIFA &#8211; Associated Press &#8211; 24 January, 2013 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and stun grenades at anti-government protesters whose chants included calls to reject proposed talks aimed at easing nearly two years of unrest in the Gulf nation. Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15984#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":[1062],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984"}],"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=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15985,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}