{"id":7792,"date":"2012-03-24T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T01:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7792"},"modified":"2012-03-24T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T04:03:55","slug":"bahrain-moi-under-advice-of-us-top-cop-john-timoney-hone-skills-in-use-of-tear-gas-as-lethal-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7792","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain MOI under advice of US, Top Cop John Timoney, hone skills in use of tear gas as lethal weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>editor: <\/strong> The MOI is responsible for scores of death as a result of abuse of less-than-lethal tear gas intended for use to disperse riotous crowds.  Security forces, as a practice use tear gas in deliberate assaults against homes transforming them into gas chambers.  MOI Police have established a clear pattern of targeting the sick, elderly and homes with infants.   The MOI has a clear practice of &#8220;saturation bombing&#8221; of villages often at night or in the early morning hours, when people are sleeping or in the day when large protests are occurring leaving the villages more vulnerable to attack.  <\/p>\n<p>In the MOI attacks, ransacking homes and theft of personal property and food have become a routine practice.   These are not isolated incident these are a daily occurrences and well documented frequent events. The apartheid policies of King Hamad have established that a deadly and systematic collective punishment and genocide has emerged.  The al Khalifa regime has ensured the destruction of any remaining hope for the so called &#8220;reforms&#8221; they have so loudly proclaimed in recent weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>The regime reforms are now being seen as clear ploy by the regime, to talk of reform and willingness to &#8220;reconcile&#8221; but all the while they maintain an intense campaign of collective punishment, escalation of state violence against the opposition, their villages and those least able to defend themselves.  <\/p>\n<p>The intensity of lethal nature of these practices have clearly increased under consultation of US, John Timoney and UK, John Yates.  When Western governments support &#8220;free enterprise murder&#8221; unchecked by the Members of Parliament  and our Congressional Representatives the moral crisis calls their constituents to hold them accountable.   Phlipn.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Tear gas kills two Bahrainis: opposition<\/strong><br \/>\nAFP, 24 March, 2012<\/p>\n<p>A Bahraini gestures during the funeral of 59-year-old Abda Ali Abdul Hussein in the village of Jidhafds, west of Manama, March 23, 2012. (Photo: Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Abdul Nabi, 31, died after a tear gas grenade landed in his family&#8217;s house in the village of Shahrakan, said a statement by Al-Wefaq, citing family members.<\/p>\n<p>The Shiite opposition group said he died due to the &#8220;poisoning and asphyxiating gases&#8221; used by security forces against Shiite youths, who stage frequent protests against the regime of the Sunni Muslim Al-Khalifa dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>It provided a picture showing a broken window through which the canister is claimed to have entered the house.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a woman named Abda Ali Abdul Hussein died on Friday after inhaling gases in the village of Jid Hafs, near the Bahraini capital Manama, Wefaq said, again citing family members.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the deaths could not immediately be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands demonstrated on Friday after the Shiite-led opposition called for several simultaneous protests across villages near Manama, in an act of defiance despite a brutal crackdown last March which quelled a month-long uprising demanding democratic change.<\/p>\n<p>The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday criticised Bahraini forces for their &#8220;disproportionate use of force&#8221; as they sought to quell protests, saying their use of tear gas may have led to over 30 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been receiving worrying reports of the disproportionate use of force by Bahraini security forces, including the excessive use of tear gas, the use of birdshot pellets and rubber bullets,&#8221; said spokesman Rupert Colville.  .<a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/2\/8\/37568\/World\/Region\/Tear-gas-kills-two-Bahrainis-opposition.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">..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%3D7792&amp;text=Bahrain+MOI+under+advice+of+US%2C+Top+Cop+John+Timoney%2C+hone+skills+in+use+of+tear+gas+as+lethal+weapon&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>editor: The MOI is responsible for scores of death as a result of abuse of less-than-lethal tear gas intended for use to disperse riotous crowds. 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