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Graphic Video Of Army Shooting At Peaceful Bahrain Protestors
As more videos such as this make the mainstream, we are concerned that not only are the days of the current Bahrain King and crown prince numbered (which also implies the future of the US Navy's 5th fleet is uncertain), but that Saudi Arabia, which has supposedly volunteered to get involved in restoring "peace" to its small neighbor, is getting ever more nervous. We continue to be amazed at how effectively the Bernanke Put is working to mask the true level of geopolitical instability. If and when the crowd realizes that Bernanke, who has proven his efficiency at printing dollar signs on pieces of cotton, may be slightly less adept at doing the same with barrels of oil, the outcome will be amusing.
Warning: very graphic.
For those wondering about the composition of the 5th Fleet, we recreate it below courtesy of Wikipedia:
- Task Force 50, Battle Force (~1 x Forward Deployed Carrier Strike Group)
- Task Force 51, Amphibious Force (~1 x Expeditionary Strike Group)
- Task Force 52, mining/demining force
- Task Force 53, Logistics Force[4]/Sealift Logistics Command Central, Military Sealift Command (MSC replenishment ships plus USN MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters and C-130 Hercules, C-9 Skytrain II and/or C-40 Clipper aircraft)
- Task Force 54, (dual-hatted as Task Force 74) Submarine Force
- Task Force 55, Operation Iraqi Freedom: Constellation Carrier Strike Force; June 2003: mine clearing force, including elements from the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program
- Task Force 56, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command force.[5]
- CTG 56.1 Explosive Ordnance Disposal / Expeditionary Diving and Salvage[6]
- CTG 56.2 Naval Construction Forces
- CTG 56.3 Expeditionary Logistics Support; Provides logistics support for USN/USA/USMC, cargo movement and customs throughout AOR
- CTG 56.4 Riverine; Provides riverineprotection of waterways from illegal smuggling of weapons, drugs and people
- CTG 56.5 Maritime Expeditionary Security; Provides
anti-Terrorism/Force Protection of land/port/littoral waterway
operations for USN and Coalition assets, as well as point defense of
strategic platforms and MSC vessels - CTG 56.6 Expeditionary Combat Readiness; Provides administrative
“Sailor support” for all Individual Augmentees, and administers the Navy
Individual Augmentee Combat Training Course and Warrior Transition
Program
- Task Force 57, (dual-hatted as Task Force 72) Patrol and
Reconnaissance Force (P-3 and EP-3 Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance
Aircraft) - Task Force 58, Maritime Surveillance Force (Northern Persian Gulf)
- Task Force 59, Expeditionary Force/Contingency Force (when required,
eg. July–August 2006 Lebanon evacuation operation, in conjunction with Joint Task Force Lebanon) In February 2007 it was conducting Maritime Security Operations[8] and as of Nov. 2, 2007, it was running a crisis management exercise.
The key issue now that the public has no trust left at all in the crown prince is that nobody is willing to engage in any form of constructive dialogue, meaning that the only option for King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and his crown prince is to start fuelling the G-6. Also, it may be time for Jim O'Neill to add Bahrain to the N-11: the country's general labor union just announced an indefinite strike starting today.
Full update on the latest events from Bahrain, courtesy of Al Arabiya:
Anti-government protesters in Bahrain swarmed back into a symbolic
square on Saturday, putting riot police to flight in a striking victory
for their cause and confidently setting up camp for a protracted stay.
Crowds had approached Pearl Square in Manama from different directions,
creating a standoff with riot police who had moved in earlier to replace
troops withdrawn on royal orders. Suddenly police raced to their buses,
which drove away mounting kerbs in their haste to escape.
The emboldened protesters, cheering and waving national flags, ran to
the centre of the traffic circle, reoccupying it even before all the
police had left. The crowd waved fleeing policemen through.
"We don't fear death anymore, let the army come and kill us to show the
world what kind of savages they are," said Umm Mohammed, a teacher
wearing a black abaya cloak.
Troops in tanks and armoured vehicles took over the traffic circle on
Thursday after riot police attacked protesters who had camped out there,
killing four people and wounding 231.
Bahrain's crown prince announced that all troops had been ordered off the streets and that police would maintain order.
"That's a very positive step," Jasim Hussain, a member of the main
Shiite Wefaq bloc that quit parliament on Thursday, told Reuters.
"They're trying to ease the tensions. I don't know whether it will be
sufficient."
"We hope to hear a clear message from the government that it will stop killing people who are protesting peacefully."
Mattar said the king must accept the "concept" of constitutional monarchy, as well as withdrawing the military.
"Then we can go for a temporary government of new faces that would not include the current interior or defence ministers."
He reiterated an opposition demand for the king to fire his uncle,
Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, crown prince, and prime minister
since Bahrain gained its independence in 1971.
"We are not going to enter a dialogue as Shi'ites," Mattar said. "They
try to put the issue in this frame. The dialogue should be with all
people who were protesting. Some are liberal, non-Islamic. Some are
Sunni and some Shi'ite."
Bahrain's general labor union called an indefinite strike on Saturday in
protest against "violent acts" by police and demanding the right to
demonstrate peacefully.
Bahrain's main Shiite opposition group said on Saturday that the
government must resign and the army pull off the streets of the capital
before it will take up an offer of dialogue from the crown prince.
"To consider dialogue, the government must resign and the army should
withdraw from the streets" of Manama, said Abdul Jalil Khalil Ibrahim,
parliamentary leader of the Islamic National Accord Association
(Al-Wefaq), the largest Shiite opposition bloc.
Bahrain's
general labor union called an indefinite strike on Saturday in protest
against "violent acts" by police and demanding the right to demonstrate
peacefully.
Bahrain's main Shiite opposition group said on Saturday that the
government must resign and the army pull off the streets of the capital
before it will take up an offer of dialogue from the crown prince.
"To consider dialogue, the government must resign and the army should
withdraw from the streets" of Manama, said Abdul Jalil Khalil Ibrahim,
parliamentary leader of the Islamic National Accord Association
(Al-Wefaq), the largest Shiite opposition bloc.
"What we're seeing now is not the language of dialogue but the language of force," he said.
On Friday King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa said he had granted the crown
prince all powers to fulfil the hopes and aspirations of all gracious
citizens from all sections" in the national dialogue.
Bahrain's
crown prince appealed on television for calm. "Today is the time to sit
down and hold a dialogue, not to fight," he said on Friday.
The monarch's offer of dialogue "is not serious," said the INAA's top
MP, urging the authorities to take "serious and sincere measures that
meet the requirements of the current situation".
"The situation is complicated and I fear it has run out of control,"
warned Ibrahim, whose group -- which holds 18 of the 40 seats in
parliament -- has pulled out in protest.
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He may have been hung as well (being black and all), but I'm pretty sure he was crucified.
fail
Hey, at least he tried.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHdlhUfJ5qc
oh i see you're one of those idiots that thinks it was USA! USA! that won it
I also watch nascar.
Hate to bring this news but Iran protests are gaining momentum again.
When they go full fledge and the Saudi's kick in this shit is going full "SHITFEST" !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/19/iranian-opposition-fresh-protests-pair-killed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/feb/11/guardian-twitter-arab-protests-interactive?intcmp=239
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmalY0QOLD8&feature=related
and what does Soros say ?
http://johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/19/soros-iran-regime-will-not-survive/
Next week's story: How $2.2 Billion of gold was looted from Bahrain.
Via CIA:
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$3.766 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 78
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For fuck sake, they sure know how to quell dissent in bahrain. This is just plain cold blooded murder.
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and letting the video get out and published... just helps them keep the populace in line.
BOO! I mean BANG!! scare'm into line!
Shame of the most horrific kind. I AM SO SAD.
it should be a simple numbers game......lots more of the people than there are of the uniforms....is it so hard for the people to start shooting the police in uniforms , just walk up and shoot them ....over and over again, until they realize they are sitting duck......they cant shoot everybody wearing plains clothes ......power in numbers yet even more power in not wearing a uniform to stick out like a sore thumb.....nothing worse than not being able to trust anyone , the police would have to go away
fog: "To the Barricades!"
I'm scratchin' my head as to when/where the last serious use of 'human wave' attacks was used.
any help here?
- Ned
Korea!
They melted the machine gun barrels mowin down Chinese peasant boys.
Wouldn't that just trend towards plainclothes agents?
Everything that had been settled is now negotiable again, or, perhaps better put, is "up for grabs" again. That is the nature of revolutions. Has the world ever before seen global revolution? What happens when the world figures out that the global cop has run out of money?
Everything is up for grabs again, that's what happens. Do you understand? Something else happens, too; most of us will be forced to choose sides. "Sitting this one out" ain't gonna cut it.
The cops in the state capitol of Wisconsin have chosen their side, probably earlier than they'd have liked to, but chosen they have. We will see more examples of this choosing as the events play out.
Which side of history will you come down on?
bad news for Switzerland
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Tyler, related, but more background. You list 5th Fleet organization (intel weenies would say OB), but that is just the structure. The pawns, knights, rooks, etc. move around and plug into an existing structure, sometimes they are commanded to move and plug into another structure.
The listing is like a library catalog--structure is established; books may or may not be on the shelf, on loan, on order, etc.
My further point is that all of these functions are not necessarily/nor ever filled up to some mark. It then presents the view that local capability is better/more complete than it is in fact. Add in confusion at various command levels, where/what the ROE may/might be, and we have potential 'degraded capability.'
Just sayin'
- Ned
{Same for all of the task organized units of the military. Listen to Rummy's interviews pushing his book where he talks about the Army reorganizing to Brigade vs. Division as further background.}
The FBI estimates that 10% of the US population is sociopathic - no empathy for the suffering of others. I would say that a good many of them are posting here tonight.
Do you feel any remorse for letting out our common secret? If so, you are not one of us, but then what are you doing here at this hour?
it gets harder and harder for me to feel sorry for people every day
oh my god, help us all . i'm crying.
oh my god, help those people's families.
Behind all the noise of these peaceful demonstartions where is the pro democracy U.S.A. Is it not rather hypocritical, that we take down Saddam Hussein as a tyrannical mad man willing to kill any and all of his political or public opponents with a death sentence, while we sit by and watch these current tyranical governments do the same thing without so much an outcry from the U.S. government as foul Play? As long as we have key allies in those regions of the Middle East that protects U.S. political intrest, we will remain neutral in such events. Most likely the smokescreen will turn to U.S. economics and concern on whether or not the government will shut down without passing a new budget. Just hide and watch, see if that is not true next week. I suspect much of what is happening is and will be ignored.
Indeed. Islam is peace, and 90% of these people are islamic, so this isn't happening.
Until something happens that can't be ignored. Then all the government-controlled media will go apeshit along with a substantial portion of the idiots who get their thought content from television. Everybody get set to tie ribbons to the tree in front of your house and paste american flag stickers on your car.
Those were brave souls who most likely new the risks they were facing. May they rest in peace. It's hard to fight rifles with sticks and stones. Freedom, unfortunately, comes at a price paid with blood. It reminds me of how fragile our freedoms are, and how we must be ever vigilant against those who constantly work to steal them away.
BTW, judging from the video, those soldiers were about 200yds away and you could definetely hear the supersonic crack of the bullets zipping by. Those were jacketed high velocity rounds, not rubber.
Not a single mention that the Bahraini military is made up of Pakistanis, Saudis, Sudanese ...etc. It is a mercenary army funded by the Saudis and trained by the US and Britain. The same can be said for any of the Gulf states.
Another lie being perpetrated by the Royal family and Faux News is that the Shia majority is Iranian immigrants. Iran controlled Bahrain before the British stole it and installed a Sunni Kelptocracy to lord over the Shia. The Sunni are the interlopers.
Bahrain is merely a practice run for Saudi. Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan and Syria are a side show... When you see demonstrations in Riyadh, its time to run for the hills. Bahrain is a Shiite vs Sunni problem which is exactly the problem in the Easter province of Saudi... which is exactly where the largest oil fields are...