{"id":9824,"date":"2012-05-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9824"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:00:00","slug":"sheikh-abdel-amir-qabalan-does-bidding-for-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9824","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan does bidding for Bahrain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Qabalan discusses developments with Saudi envoy<\/strong><br \/>\n16 May, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now <\/p>\n<p>Higher Islamic Shia Council deputy chief Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan discussed the latest regional and domestic developments with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Assiri, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[They] also discussed the latest Bahraini developments and voiced the importance of improving Saudi-Lebanese relations [in a manner] that serves both countries\u2019 interests,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Qabalan said he \u201ctrusted the wisdom of Saudi King Abdullah Abdel Aziz,\u201d and called on him to make efforts to resolve the \u201ccrisis in Bahrain\u201d in a manner that achieves justice and equality.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) discussed on Monday plans to turn the bloc into a union, starting with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, which sparked an angry Iranian response and threatened to worsen tension in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International says 60 people have been killed in Bahrain since pro-democracy led protests began against the Sunni-led government in Shia-majority Bahrain in mid-February 2011.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowlebanon.com\/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=396961\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<br \/>\n<\/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%3D9824&amp;text=Sheikh+Abdel+Amir+Qabalan+does+bidding+for+Bahrain%3F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qabalan discusses developments with Saudi envoy 16 May, 2012 &#8211; Lebanon Now Higher Islamic Shia Council deputy chief Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan discussed the latest regional and domestic developments with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Assiri, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday. \u201c[They] also discussed the latest Bahraini developments and voiced the importance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9824#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":[3025],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824"}],"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=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}