"King" Hamad stabilizing the Persian Gulf region.
Hello friends, it's time again to see what our loyal ally, the Bahraini crime family, is doing to wage war against the Global Terror Threat.
Bahrain you will recall is populated principally by Shia Muslims, whereas the local crime boss, Hamad, is a Sunni, at least when it suits him. Of course the Saudis, who have persecuted Shia for, oh, about 300 years, have helped Hamad shoot down the protestors, mostly Shia, against his regime.
Now, from Voice of America comes some details of the magnificent jurisprudential tradition that is the Bahraini legal system.
For the crime of treating Shia protestors shot by the crime lord ... ah ... "king" Hamad at the main hospital, this physician reports:
"They stormed into my house [and] I didn’t know who these people were," she says. "They were wearing civilian clothes, fully armed with weapons and guns and they were all masked. I was pulled out of my bedroom and thrown in a civilian car."
It was shortly thereafter when Dhaif says she was coerced into signing a confession after being kicked, beaten and spit upon. "They threatened me with rape," she says.
Just yesterday, with the possibility that Raytheon might not be able to schlepp out another huge arms sale, the Bahraini mafia announced the remission prison sentences imposed on medical personnel for treating people shot by the regime ... but only to the extent that they would get new trials (yes, for the same crime of providing medical treatment) before civilian rather than military courts.
Woohoo! Let the arms trafficking begin!