{"id":5714,"date":"2012-02-09T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:02:52","slug":"press-releases-see-new-spin-shiite-majority-at-odds-with-western-allied-rulers-not-sunni-monarchy-or-ruling-al-khalifa-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5714","title":{"rendered":"Press releases see new spin, Shiite Majority at odds with Western-Allied Rulers not Sunni Monarchy or Ruling al Khalifa Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S. envoy urges renewed Bahrain crisis talks<\/strong><br \/>\n9 February, 2012 &#8211; AP<\/p>\n<p>MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 The U.S. State Department&#8217;s top human rights envoy is urging Bahrain&#8217;s Sunni monarchy and Shiite-led opposition to resume talks aimed at ending yearlong unrest in the strategic Gulf nation.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner also raised deep concerns Thursday about possible escalating violence before the uprising&#8217;s one-year anniversary next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters are calling for major demonstrations. Bahraini authorities plan a massive deployment of security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Posner made the remarks to reporters after meetings with Bahraini officials, opposition activists and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahrain&#8217;s majority Shiites are seeking to break the strong grip on power by the Western-allied rulers.<\/strong> Bahrain is host to the U.S. Navy&#8217;s 5th Fleet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/usatoday\/article\/53025872?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|p\" 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%3D5714&amp;text=Press+releases+see+new+spin%2C+Shiite+Majority+at+odds+with+Western-Allied+Rulers+not+Sunni+Monarchy+or+Ruling+al+Khalifa+Regime&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. envoy urges renewed Bahrain crisis talks 9 February, 2012 &#8211; AP MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) \u2014 The U.S. State Department&#8217;s top human rights envoy is urging Bahrain&#8217;s Sunni monarchy and Shiite-led opposition to resume talks aimed at ending yearlong unrest in the strategic Gulf nation. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner also raised deep concerns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5714#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":[977],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714"}],"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=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}