{"id":1714,"date":"2011-06-05T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2011-06-05T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:30:27","slug":"continuing-bahraini-state-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Bahraini State Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing Bahraini State Terror<br \/>\nJune 5, 2011<br \/>\nby Stephen Lendman<\/p>\n<p>For months, Bahraini and Saudi security forces targeted nonviolent protesters and activists wanting the repressive Al Khalifa monarchy replaced by constitutionally elected government, political freedom, and social justice, what Bahrainis never had and don\u2019t now.<\/p>\n<p>Still functioning despite authorities terrorizing people brutally, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) provides regular updates on the ground, expressing great concern about King Hamad\u2019s ruthless:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cactions and arbitrary penalties against citizens who it believes participated or supported the peaceful protest movement in February and March, whereas, Bahraini authorities (unleashed) great violence (against them, resulting in) dozens of deaths, especially after\u201d thuggish Saudi and Emirati forces also suppressed them.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/inteldaily.com\/2011\/06\/continuing-bahraini-state-terror\/\">see full article here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In April, BCHR President Nabeel Rajab said America\u2019s media were told not to cover brutal Bahraini violence, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the US, some news agencies and TV stations were asked not to report on Bahrain, and not to embarrass\u201d Obama who fully supports it. At the same time, while terror bombing Libya, he falsely accuses Gaddafi of human rights violations for actions independent observers call self-defense against Western-backed insurgents, cutthroat killers targeting anyone suspected of pro-regime sympathies.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s media obliged, ignoring Bahraini state terror while vilifying Gaddafi for justifiable self-defense. In contrast, independent journalists can\u2019t be bribed or intimidated.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on what\u2019s really happening in both countries, they reveal Western-backed violence and brutality against anyone challenging entrenched pro-Western regimes and America\u2019s interests, backed by bipartisan consensus under all US administrations, each new one worse than its predecessor.  &#8230;more<\/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%3D1714&amp;text=Continuing+Bahraini+State+Terror&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing Bahraini State Terror June 5, 2011 by Stephen Lendman For months, Bahraini and Saudi security forces targeted nonviolent protesters and activists wanting the repressive Al Khalifa monarchy replaced by constitutionally elected government, political freedom, and social justice, what Bahrainis never had and don\u2019t now. Still functioning despite authorities terrorizing people brutally, the Bahrain Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=1714#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[602],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}