and to think decades ago the british complained and objected to indonesia using saladin in crushing the islam extremist in aceh...

This british former police/current agent, John Yates, was so corrupt and so shameless in his blatant actions that even the Scotlandyard found him a disgrace and decided to get rid of him. I never forget how the british parliament committee questionning with regards to his corruption charges were astonished by his arrogant shameless attitude. Now I see he has made a great match for the corrupt shameless Ale-Khalifah Sheikhs! Congratulations on your marriage!

So, this Scotland Yard thug says the protesters are all looters and rioters? Really? Unarmed medical personnel mass murdered in cold blood by the Bahraini thug sheik private security forces while protesting and helping others is now "looting" and "rioting"? And sending the survivors of these massacres to prison for decades by use of military courts is completely okay? But hey, as long as thug "Baroness" Ashtons aide says these brutal crackdowns are only "accidents", it is no problem at all?

In the End, the West, that preaches "democracy" and "human rights" is supporting another apartheid thug regime where a minority rules over a majority. And just like in South Africa, the ones that fought the Apartheid thugs were listed as terrorists, like Nelson Mandela until the late 2000s.

Histor y repeats itself...

AnAmerican wrote in #2
There are people going out utilizing protests for their own agenda (Looting, Rioting, etc.) While the original protesters might not have bad intentions all it takes is for one person to get violent for the police to retaliate. And from what it seems it's just a bunch of rioting. This isn't organized protests. This is not peaceful. If it were I'd support them and be apalled by use of force, however if they are going to loot and riot (which hurts other CITIZENS not the police, or the government) then unleash a wrath of tear gas like never before.  Yep , you're an American alright. Short sighted, narrow minded and you see violence as the answer to every problem.

Usual Western double standards...

Bahrain is OK, Syria is not

Kosovo's indipendence is OK, Abkhazia's and South Ossetia are not

and usual Western lies:

Before the Invasion of Iraq, the average Westerner was lead to believe that there were so many WMD in Iraq that they could be found in every street corner.

Final outcome:

No WMD ever found in Iraq

"humanit arian intervention in Lybia" just an act to steal Lybia's oil (and in the meantime even tuna from Lybian waters, just google illegal tuna fishing Lybia), massacre civilians from the air and install a puppet government and let Al Qaeda commandos and their "freedom fighters" friends run amok murdering and terrorising people at will

"hundred s of children killed in Syria" while NATO refuses to admit they killed hundreds (thousands?) (tens of thousands? who knows, there is a total black out of news about it in the West) of children in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lybia too.

Obviousl y when Julian Assange and Wikileaks reported what The U.S. Government and NATO were doing all over the world, it was immediately condemned as a "threat to National Security". There you go, always trust Fox, CNN and BBC and their government-approved point of view on Bahrain, Syria or Afghanistan

There are people going out utilizing protests for their own agenda (Looting, Rioting, etc.) While the original protesters might not have bad intentions all it takes is for one person to get violent for the police to retaliate. And from what it seems it's just a bunch of rioting. This isn't organized protests. This is not peaceful. If it were I'd support them and be apalled by use of force, however if they are going to loot and riot (which hurts other CITIZENS not the police, or the government) then unleash a wrath of tear gas like never before. 

"Pictures of a crackdown by heavily armed police on protesters in Bahrain appear to be similar to many others during the Arab Spring"-----No, no, there
is a big difference! Bahrain is the "super democratic" State, sure, and the best
frend of USA. So, Western-also utmost "democratic"-media are absolutely quiet: in Bahrain everything is OK.