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Bahrain gives prison terms to arab spring protesters
A court in Bahrain handed down sentences of between 5 and 15 years in jail for 50 people on Sunday whom the authorities accused of belonging to a protest movement. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/world/middleeast/bahrain-dissidents-said-to-get-prison-sentences.html?ref=world The court’s action, if it is confirmed, would appear to be part of a widening effort by the authorities to quash protests led by […]
Egypt military uses propaganda to thwart defections
The Egyptian military has enlisted Muslim scholars in a propaganda campaign to persuade soldiers and policemen that they have a religious duty to obey orders to use deadly force against supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/world/middleeast/egypt.html?hp generals are worried about insubordination in the ranks, after security forces have killed hundreds of their fellow […]
Egypt military allows Islamists to attack churches
Egypt’s security forces, which have taken center stage in Egyptian political life in recent weeks, have made little effort to protect churches and other Christian property, leaving Christians in many parts of Egypt to fend for themselves. A majority of the attacks have happened in Upper Egypt, the country’s poorer and more conservative southern and […]
NWO nutures divide & conquer and sympathetic police state
The ferocity of the attacks by security forces on Islamist protesters in Cairo, Egypt this week appears to have been a deliberate calculation of the military-appointed government to provoke violence from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, a number of Arab and Western historians of Middle East politics said. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/world/middleeast/attacks-on-protesters-in-cairo-were-calculated-to-provoke-some-say.html?hp&_r=0 The hatreds unleashed on all […]
US pays Egypt 1.5 billion to kill journalists and civilians
A veteran cameraman for the Britain-based news network Sky News was among the hundreds of people killed in Cairo on Wednesday. Other journalists described close calls in the streets, and several were detained by local authorities. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/world/middleeast/cameraman-for-british-network-is-killed-in-cairo.html?ref=world&_r=0 Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a reporter for Xpress, a newspaper based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was also […]
Kerry confused by the words, “Democracy & Coup” in Egypt
Secretary of State John Kerry offered an unexpected lift to Egypt’s military leaders on Thursday, saying they had been “restoring democracy” when they deposed the country’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/middleeast/egypt-warns-morsi-supporters-to-end-protests.html?ref=world&_r=0 Mr. Kerry said, “The military did not take over, to the best of our judgment — so far.” Mr. Kerry’s blunt comments […]
US operative killed fighting with Syrian rebels
F.B.I. agents from Detroit’s field office showed up in Flint, Mich. with reports and images, broadcast by pro-government news media agencies in Syria, show that Nicole Lynn Mansfield, 33, and a British man were among three people killed in Syria on Wednesday during a confrontation with government forces. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/us/syria-fighting-touches-a-family-in-michigan.html?ref=us The state media agencies broadcast a […]
US allies suppress Arab uprising
Violence in Bahrain threatens to undermine talks aimed at ending the crisis that began two years ago after the authorities, with help from a Saudi-led regional force, suppressed an uprising. The Shiite-led opposition has demanded greater political rights from the Sunni monarchy, a United States ally. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/world/middleeast/bahrain-dozens-hurt-during-protests.html?src=rechp&_r=0 Dozens of people were injured and least three […]
Another US ally tortured protesters to death
Two Barhain police officers were sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison for fatally torturing and beating an antigovernment protester at the beginning of the country’s political crisis in 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/world/middleeast/bahrain-2-officers-are-sentenced-for-torturing-a-protester-to-death.html?ref=world Dozens of activists and others have received longer sentences, including life in prison. Bahrain’s unrest claimed more than 60 lives. the court found […]
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