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they should learn some lessons from Syrian freedom seekers^^^
 
July 15, 2013

Bahraini MP’s home firebombed

The prime minister has ordered security forces to find the attackers

Assailants attacked the home of a Bahraini member of parliament with petrol bombs on Monday, the state news agency BNA said, the latest in a series of assaults on public officials and security personnel in the kingdom.

No one was hurt in the dawn attack on the home of Abbas Eisa Al Madi, chairman of parliament’s Services Committee. Pictures published by BNA showed fire damage to the main gate and a garage door.

The island has been buffeted by political turmoil since 2011, when opposition protesters took to the streets calling for democratic reforms and more say in government.

Although authorities have largely quelled the revolt, small-scale clashes and protests erupt almost daily in the kingdom.

National reconciliation talks between the government and opposition parties have made little progress since they began in February.

Instead, residents point to an increase in the use of homemade bombs, including fire bombs, in recent months against security forces and sometimes public officials.

Earlier this month, a homemade bomb killed one policeman in Sitra, a town near the capital Manama.

Last Saturday, a homemade bomb injured four policemen in the village of Janabiya, in northwestern Bahrain.

Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa condemned Monday’s attack on Madi’s house and ordered security forces to find the attackers, BNA said.

“Vandalism has never been a path to reform and terrorism and suppression of the opposite opinion has never been a path to democracy,” he said.

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/bahraini-mp-s-home-firebombed-1.1209478



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July 16, 2013

Suspects in arson attack on Bahrain official’s home arrested

Attack on lawmaker’s home in Bahrain condemned

Three people suspected of attacking the home of a Bahraini lawmaker with petrol bombs have been arrested, the police said.

No one was hurt in the Monday dawn attack on the home of Abbas Eisa Al Madhi, the chairman of parliament’s Services Committee, in the coastal village of Dair in Muharraq, the country’s second largest island.

However, a car stationed near the house and the main gate and the garage door were damaged in the 4:15am assault, the latest on public figures and security personnel in the kingdom rocked by months of unrest.

“We are looking for the other suspects involved in the attack,” the head of the Muharraq police said.

Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa said the attack was “an assault on democracy.”

“It reveals the ugly face of those who make false claims for democracy while they use violence and terror to suppress all voices opposed to them,” Prince Khalifa said, quoted by Bahrain News Agency (BNA). “The government utterly condemns the attack and will apply the law against its perpetrators. Violence is rejected at the popular and official levels, particularly that targeting the members of the constitutional institutions amounts to targeting the state and this cannot tolerated,” he said.

Acts of sabotage cannot lead to reforms while terror and violence do not take to democracy, he said.

The lower chamber of the bicameral parliament and the Shura Council, the upper chamber, condemned the attack and expressed solidarity with Al Madhi.

Suspects in arson attack on Bahrain official



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July 17, 2013

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The company entrance set on fire

Bahrain office set ablaze in arson attack

Police pledge full investigation to arrest assailants

A group of people set a company office ablaze and exploded two gas cylinders inside it, Bahrain police said on Wednesday.

“The police were informed at 3.14am about the incident and an investigation team was dispatched to the company premises in the Budaya area,” the interior ministry said on its Twitter account. “Most of the company offices were damaged in the arson attack. The police have launched an investigation to identify the terrorists and bring them to justice,” the ministry said.

The attack west of the capital Manama was the latest in a recent series of assaults on public figures and security personnel in the kingdom rocked by months of unrest and marked by deep divergences over the merit and purpose of the events that occurred in February and March 2011.

On Monday, there was a petrol bomb attack on the home of MP Abbas Eisa Al Madhi, the chairman of parliament’s Services Committee, in the coastal village of Dair in Muharraq, the country’s second largest island.

No was hurt in the 4.15am assault, but a car stationed near the house and the main gate and the garage door were damaged.

The police said that three people suspected of the attack with petrol bombs have been arrested.

The parliament has condemned the attack while the government said that it was an assault on democracy.

Bahrain office set ablaze in arson attack | GulfNews.com



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July 18, 2013



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The car used in the explosion at a mosque parking area



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The car used in the explosion at a mosque parking area



Bahrain rattled by bombing near royal palaces

Explosion at Shaikh Eisa Bin Salman Mosque in Riffa prompts widespread condemnation

A booby-trapped car which exploded in a mosque parking area near the royal residences has rattled Bahrain, prompting widespread condemnation.

“The explosion occurred on Wednesday evening at 8.20 while there were people praying at the mosque in Riffa,” the interior ministry said in a statement. “The security authorities rushed to the scene as soon as the case was reported. The investigation will continue to identify the suspects and bring them to justice,” the ministry said, quoting the Director-General of the Southern Governorate Police.

The bombing at the Shaikh Eisa Bin Salman Mosque in Riffa, 15 kilometres south of the capital Manama, was promptly condemned.

King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa directed the security services to take the necessary measures to enforce the law towards those who perpetrated the act of terror targeting innocent people performing their Taraweeh (Ramadan evening) prayers, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported.

The monarch also called for the full application of the law against those who incited, participated and assisted in the acts during Ramadan, the official news agency added.

Such acts are alien to the values and morals of the people of Bahrain, who have had enough of them, the king said.

No one was injured in the attack.

Prime Minister Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa said that the bombing was “an ugly and despicable terrorist act that targeted a house of God and its worshippers in a cheap attempt to drag the country into a sectarian and doctrinal situation that is religiously unacceptable and officially and popularly condemnable.”

“Such attempts that are considered a dangerous escalation in the acts of terror will not succeed to defeat the determination of the people and the resolve of the government keen on resisting them,” Prince Khalifa was quoted as saying by the BNA. “The higher interests of the nation require a high sense of patriotic responsibility and acts in order to confront those who attempt to undermine relations between the people of Bahrain.”

Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa said that all people should speak out against violence and terror.

“The community leaders who lapse into silence should assume their responsibilities,” he said. “We are not at all pleased with the leaders who incite violence and are not serious about reaching an accord. Those who are genuinely sincere about a consensus should condemn and ban violence,” he said.

Al Wefaq, the largest opposition society, condemned the bombing, saying that it was a dangerous development “alien to the character of the Bahraini people.”

“We stand against any acts or plans of violence and such an act is against the peaceful nature of the Bahraini society,” Al Wefaq said.

Parliament Speaker Khalifa Al Dahrani said that the explosion was “a dangerous sectarian act to undermine security and national unity”.

Several religious scholars joined the chorus of condemnation and warned of the dangerous consequences of the bombing.

The car blast concluded a day of acts of violence in Bahrain that started with a company being set ablaze in the Budaya area, west of Manama, at 3.14am.

The police said that cylinders were used in the arson attack.

The car blast and the arson attack were the latest in a recent series of assaults on public figures and places in the kingdom rocked by months of unrest.

On Monday assailants attempted to set on fire the home of MP Abbas Eisa Al Madhi, the chairman of parliament’s Services Committee, in the coastal village of Dair in Muharraq, the country’s second largest island.

Bahrain rattled by bombing near royal palaces | GulfNews.com
 
“Vandalism has never been a path to reform and terrorism and suppression of the opposite opinion has never been a path to democracy,” he said.
^^ HAHA look who's talking, if a bunch of thugs and al qaeda members do the same thing in Syria, you support it, but when it happens it Bahrain, it's called "vandalism"?
Whahhabi hypocrisy at its best
 
Jul 15, 2013

Bahrain policemen wounded in bombing

A home-made bomb wounded four Bahraini policemen outside a Shiite village, the kingdom's interior ministry said yesterday.

The bomb was "planted by terrorists" near Janabiyah village, west of Manama, the ministry said. It often uses the term to refer to Shiite anti-government protesters.

The device was remotely detonated, the Al Ayam newspaper cited a security official as saying.

Police said that security forces arrested "one terrorist" who had been involved in preparing the bomb that exploded late on Saturday.

Other culprits had been identified and would be arrested.

Earlier this month, a policeman was killed and two others wounded in what security officials said was a terrorist bombing outside a police station in the Shiite village of Sitra, south of the capital.

Shiite-led demonstrators have kept up anti government protests despite a 2011 crackdown, sparking repeated clashes with security forces.

In mid-February, a police officer was killed by a petrol bomb during clashes with protesters, after a teenager was shot dead during a demonstration marking the second anniversary of the launch of the protests.

Bahrain's Shiite-led opposition yesterday criticised the Sunni-ruled government for warning people against joining protests that are planned for next month and named after Egypt's Tamarod rebellion movement.

"The people have the right to protest peacefully" on August 14 to mark the 42nd anniversary of British forces pulling out of the Arabian Gulf kingdom, said the Al Wefaq movement.

Al Wefaq urged the authorities not to use the demonstrations as a pretext to crackdown on the opposition and launch widespread arrests.

"This will not solve the political crisis. The solution is in satisfying the people's aspirations for liberty, social justice and democracy," said the Shiite movement.

Bahrain's interior ministry warned anyone against taking part in "illegal demonstrations and activities that endanger security".

It referred to calls for demonstrations to be held on August 14 under the slogan "Bahrain Tamarod", which means rebellion in Arabic.

The interior ministry warned security forces would "deal with any attempt to disturb security and stability".

At least 80 people have been killed in Bahrain since the protests erupted in 2011, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.

Bahrain policemen wounded in bombing - The National

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Jul 22, 2013

Bahrain holds 3 over mosque bomb

Three suspects linked to a car bomb that exploded outside a Sunni mosque south of the capital Manama have been arrested, the Bahraini government said yesterday.

Three people suspected of involvement in the terrorist act that took place near Sheikh Isa bin Salman mosque in Rifaa have been arrested," the interior ministry said.

The royal court is situated in the same area where the bomb, made from a gas cylinder, exploded late on Wednesday without causing casualties.

The ministry said the suspects had been referred to the public prosecution.

It did not say when the arrests had been made. The bomb attack drew condemnation from the authorities in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom, as well as from the Shiite-led opposition.

Al Wefaq, the opposition formation, said it rejected the use of violence to resolve Bahrain's political crisis, which hit a deadlock after security forces crushed month-long demonstrations in March 2011. The authorities have made arrests since the explosion and beefed up security on roads leading to villages around Manama that are populated by the country's Shiite majority.

Also yesterday, the home of a member of parliament was attacked with petrol bombs for the second time in a week.

The attack on the home of Abbas Isa Al Madi, chairman of parliament's services committee, follows one on July 15 in which was no one was hurt. Severe fire damage to walls surrounding the house was recorded.

Protests remain frequent in Shiite villages despite the 2011 crackdown. Several people were wounded on Friday, including a policeman "shot with a home-made gun," in clashes between security forces and anti-regime protesters.

The interior ministry banned a rally that had been planned by the opposition for Friday afternoon.

National reconciliation talks between the government and opposition parties have made little progress since they began in February. Instead, residents point to an increase in the use of homemade bombs, including fire bombs, in recent months against security forces and sometimes public officials.


Bahrain holds 3 over mosque bomb - The National
 
I don't understand why the police are still confronting the riots with those useless vehicles.

********.com - Protestors attack police with petrol bombs in Bahrain (comments)
 
more you don't care about citizens rights, less it will be calm.
this is something governments never learn

sad that some people because they hate Iranians, are happy with the suffer of Bahrainis
and these people pray Allah... i can imagine how dirty it is to pray Allah when you are happy people are treated badly

we do ramadan, we mistreat our women, and we act savages
what became Islam
and what became our region all the world watching us thinking how stupid we are

strangely some people ask caliphate .. based on what? mistreating women?
what a great project

what a great insult towards our prophet that thinking he wanted we hate each other
thinking we needed to mistreat our women
thinking we do ramadan but when we don't care keep morality, humanity, charity

(my bad mood day :D)
 
I don't understand why the police are still confronting the riots with those useless vehicles.

********.com - Protestors attack police with petrol bombs in Bahrain (comments)

And they cry out loud when the authorities try to protect itself.
 
A great video and a little reminder to some of the wannabe Arabs from outside the Arab and Muslim world belonging to a certain personal cult.

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terrorist music

:laughcry:

No it is not and it is not "music" but anasheed.

Whatever Bahrain is safe and will always be part of the Arab world and it continues to be a member state of the GCC. Unlike what some Ajamis and Majoos dream about and their stooges who are our enemies and at war with us.
 
The Story of Bahrain

It is a story NOT of a democracy: but of a dictatorship that is headed by a ruling dynasty installed by the British colonial powers and then supported and sponsored by the US, the inheritor in the Middle East of British and French colonialism. The King has NOT been pressured or criticized, and there were NO calls for his dismissal or resignation. Obama and his secretary of state did NOT call on the King to step down. They NEVER said that the King “has to go.” Western government did NOT call on the Bahraini tyrant to heed the calls of his people. Unlike Syria, Bahrain is – we are told – “complicated.” Complicated is a word that is often invoked by Western governments and Western human rights organizations when they wish to cover up occupation, repression, and massacres by allies and clients of the West.

But the people of Bahrain were NEVER passive. They have a history of courageous opposition to the House of Khalifah. People of Bahrain were at the forefront of political activism and they produced diverse political movements over the decades: Arab nationalist and leftist causes were popular, and labor unionism had an exemplary history.

But Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet, which immediately gives Bahrain’s ranking in the politically bogus classification of Freedom House an elevated status. If Bahrain were to host another US fleet, or if it were to open a big base for US forces, like Qatar did, then Bahrain would have been declared a Free country. If Jeffrey Feltman famously declared back in 2011 that Egypt was not Tunisia, in order to reassure Zionists that Hosni Mubarak was safe and sound, then Bahrain is NOT Syria for sure.

The people of Bahrain have NO friends in the West or in any other country. There is no organization that calls itself “Friends of Bahrain.” That is not a sexy cause. The people of Bahrain have no friends at all, not even in the Arab world. The majority of the people in Bahrain are NOT Sunnis, which automatically places them in the enemy camp according to standards of the West and dominant Saudi-Qatari leadership of the Arab counter-revolution. The hundreds of thousands of people of Bahrain do NOT amount to “a revolution” in the language of Western media. They are NOT a people. This is a movement that just can NOT be called an uprising. They have to be referred to as Shia to implicate them with ties to the Iranian mullahs. This makes it easier for Western readers to understand.

There were NO panels, workshops, and conferences devoted to Bahrain. Western academics did NOT offer long articles about how to best arm and supply the Bahraini protesters. There were NO arms lists provided to Western governments, and Western foreign ministers did NOT feign concern and compassion about the people of Bahrain. There were NO debates held in Western media and on college campuses on how to best serve the people of Bahrain.

Western media did NOT strive to smuggle correspondents into Bahrain, and the few articles on Bahrain did NOT carry disclaimers about how the Bahraini tyrant did NOT allow journalists to freely roam the country to report on its affairs. Western correspondents based in Beirut did NOT obtain names of dissidents and activists in Bahrain to Skype with and to form the basis of long reports about the bravery and righteousness of a mass political movement. NEITHER Qatar NOR Saudi Arabia funded the Bahraini Observatory for Human Rights to provide the Western media with daily reports about the repression and brutality of the regime.

Western media do NOT report about the blatant sectarian propaganda, schemes and policies of the King of Bahrain. Instead, the mere sectarian affiliation of the majority of the Bahraini population is used as evidence of sectarian culpability and machinations. The Saudi military intervention in Bahrain is NOT categorized as the foreign intervention that bothers Western governments and media in Syria, but only when on the side of the regime. The bogus Western media narrative of Arab uprising would NOT refrain from including the Saudi sectarian-military intervention in Bahrain in the democracy tale in which Lawrences of Arabia get – yet again – the full credit, while supplying tyrants with advanced weaponry.

The people of Bahrain were NOT told to pursue the military option with the regime and Hillary Clinton did NOT call on them to preserve their arms. On the contrary, the people of Bahrain were ordered to refrain from peaceful protests and to treat kindly the armed goons of the regime. They would NOT get fawningly favorable coverage if they were to emulate the methods of the heroes of Western governments in Syria (car bombs, indiscriminate shelling, sectarian kidnappings, butchery, and sectarian cleansing). The people of Bahrain were NOT told to hope for change: They were told that they are lucky because the tyrant has a son who is so nice and loving, and that he can do business with the US for years to come.

The story of Bahrain is NOT told in Arab or Western media. The people of Bahrain do NOT exist, and their protests NEVER happened, and their uprising does NOT belong to the list of Arab uprisings. Why can NOT the people of Bahrain go away, to another island for example? They are posing a threat to the ruling dynasty and to Western interests.


The Story of Bahrain | Al Akhbar English
 

And they cry out loud when the authorities try to protect itself.

Why isn't Bahrain police using any anti riot vehicles since those puppet of Iranian protesters using molotives and stones etc to destroy vehicles easily? Shouldn't the Peninsula Shield Force send them some? They should use this

Or order TOMA vehicles in Turkey and use water cannons on those people? :azn:
 
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@MooshMoosh

No clue :/. All I know is that Bahrain imports vehicles fom Turkey, so I guess it shouldn't be hard for them to get what they need.

Would love to see real tanks in action though :police:
 
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The free bahrain protestors need a friend of bahrain kind a deal. Perhaps only then democracy will start to sprout backed by JDAM.
 

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