{"id":8490,"date":"2012-04-10T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2012-04-10T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:16:03","slug":"moi-pinkertons-raid-village-of-akr-walk-away-with-prisoners-of-course-they-did-guitly-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8490","title":{"rendered":"MOI &#8220;Pinkertons&#8221; raid village of Akr, walk away with prisoners &#8211; of course they did, guitly or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain arrests four after \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on policemen<\/strong><br \/>\n10 April, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now  <\/p>\n<p>Bahraini authorities arrested four people Tuesday in a dawn raid on a Shia village, the opposition said, after seven policemen were wounded there in what officials claimed was a &#8220;terrorist attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Wefaq, the main opposition bloc, said that security forces arrested four people in the village of Akr, south of Manama, and &#8220;brutally&#8221; beat up relatives of those wanted by authorities in a crackdown which also left several wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests came hours after state news agency BNA quoted public security chief, General Tareq al-Hassan, as saying that an improvised bomb exploded late Monday near a police checkpoint at the entrance to Akr &#8220;wounding seven policemen, three of them critically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hassan added that the initial investigation &#8220;revealed that the explosion was caused by a pipe bomb attached to a container full of gasoline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a late Monday statement, Al-Wefaq said that it was closely &#8220;following the developments in Akr&#8230; but we have no independent information&#8221; about the incident, adding that the village was &#8220;entirely surrounded by security forces who are imposing collective punishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have received calls for help from village residents,&#8221; it said, adding that security forces are &#8220;using pellet guns&#8221; against the villagers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowlebanon.com\/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=384889\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/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%3D8490&amp;text=MOI+%22Pinkertons%22+raid+village+of+Akr%2C+walk+away+with+prisoners+-+of+course+they+did%2C+guitly+or+not&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain arrests four after \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on policemen 10 April, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now Bahraini authorities arrested four people Tuesday in a dawn raid on a Shia village, the opposition said, after seven policemen were wounded there in what officials claimed was a &#8220;terrorist attack.&#8221; Al-Wefaq, the main opposition bloc, said that security forces arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8490#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":[2830],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490"}],"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=8490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8491,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490\/revisions\/8491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}