Middle East Revolutions: Current Bahrain protests getting violent

[Gryffes]

Peaceful march towards the square, army opens fire and kills people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQcKXmMM

[AidenCarby]

Jesus, boom headshot.

[donnie]

yea i posted it in my reply earlier, this is the full video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_S2IiVfT0

at 3:30 you can hear the people shouting " lets go die, everyone lets go die", then at 4:20 2 guys telling the army to shoot them too, which I think they did.

before that, they were saying to make sure to capture the deaths.

man those are like brainwashed zombies, I was sickened once i saw the short version but after i saw this I just feel sorry for them and pissed at their "imams" i will try to get the recording of their speeches that they have to die to justify the revolution

[AidenCarby]

Dying in skinny jeans :\

[Feedmenow]

Regardless of how suicidal these guys are, wouldn't hosing them or some other form of riot control have been more effective at dispersing them without killing some dudes?

[donnie]

lol i am not justifying the action by army, but i will repeat: we are in the brick of civil war here. it doesnt matter what the government will do now, its too late both sides hate each other guts ( sunni vs shiiat). the official TV is broadcasting some anti-civil war stuff already.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Brittan revoked its licenses for delivering weaponry to Libya and Bahrain.


Bahrain:
Crown Prince ordered security to stay away from the Pearl Sq. Riot police & Security fled when protesters arrived.

Looks like Bahraini's are back in Pearl Sq and AJ reporters are on location with camera's rolling.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...336940622.html

People immediately started bringing tents back and falling to kiss the ground or pray [I am not going to assume since I do not know but they were falling to the ground and lowering their heads to it.] once they got in the circle. People were pulling away the barbed wire also.

Remnants of TG canisters with Made In USA found and collected by protesters in the Sq. :/

Excerpt from Al Jazeera English blog post about Bahrain.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-ea...ar-gas-bahrain

Whether or not the Bahrainis intended to topple their own government, they were definitely calling for major reforms in the way it operates. All the people I spoke to said they wanted economic reforms, better employment opportunities, and an end to discrimination of the nation’s majority Shia population governed by a Sunni minority.

My taxi driver, Ali, narrated to me his attempt to find a decent job as we drove to the souq. He said his potential bosses had outright asked each person’s sect, separated the two groups, and given the jobs to the Sunni applicants.

However, “this is not a sectarian fight,” clarified Nabeel Rajab, the vice president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. “An end to discrimination of Shias is only one of the many reforms we are asking for. We are asking for better rights for all Bahrainis. It is not a Shia-Sunni dispute.”

Inside Story | Bahrain On The Brink

Inside Story is one of Al Jazeera's programs. Video at the link.

http://english.aljazeera.net/program...750868594.html

Bahrain on the brink

Can the monarchy survive this latest round of unrest and what does it all mean for the region?
Inside Story Last Modified: 19 Feb 2011 13:30 GMT

Events in Tunisia and Egypt have left Arab governments worried and Bahrain's royal family is no exception.

Days of protests came to a violent head on Thursday when a police crackdown left several people dead and scores injured.

Pro-democracy street agitation is not a stranger to Bahrain - there have been protests gping as far back as the early 1990s with opposition forces demanding that the monarchy make room for a more constitutional framework and a much more democratic polity.

Can the monarchy survive this latest round of unrest and what does it all mean for the region?

Inside Story presenter Divya Gopalan discusses with guests: Saeed al-Shihabi of the Bahrain Freedom Movement; Ibrahim Khayat, the director of the International Centre for Strategic Analysis; and Nabeel Rajab, the vice-president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.

This episode of Inside Story aired on Friday, February 18, 2011.

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Libya:
Google made a voice mail to tweet transcription service available via phone number. It automatically transcribes people's phone calls into tweets. Not sure if it is automated or if Google actually hired operators.

Internet was off temporarily last night in various Libyan locations and came back in some places.

Unverified: Qaddafi is reportedly using African mercs, giving them 30k each to attack protesters.

Libyan Americans gathering outside of the White House to ask for pressure on Libya to stop human rights abuses.

BBC World Service Audio: 19/02/2011 Available to listen
Protesters out on the streets of Benghazi - defiant despite threats of a crackdown.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dr4nx

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Egypt:
Egypt reopened Rafah Border with Gaza 5 hrs per day.

[Gryffes]

yea i posted it in my reply earlier, this is the full video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_S2IiVfT0

at 3:30 you can hear the people shouting " lets go die, everyone lets go die", then at 4:20 2 guys telling the army to shoot them too, which I think they did.

before that, they were saying to make sure to capture the deaths.

man those are like brainwashed zombies, I was sickened once i saw the short version but after i saw this I just feel sorry for them and pissed at their "imams" i will try to get the recording of their speeches that they have to die to justify the revolution

How's that different from people saying "We're ready to die for our country" type stuff in tunisia/egypt? Were they asking for it as well?
Seriously there was no violence what so ever in the video before the army opened fire but they deserved it?

Please stop trying to spin this like it's some evil iranian plot when not one video of the protestors being attacked shows them using violence before being attacked.

[Gryffes]

Yeah fuck this guy, clearly a hezbollah plot.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4...nprotestor.jpg

[Hyan]

donnie sounds like he has a bit of bias in this case. Are you by any chance a Sunni?

[Gryffes]

Libya is actually worse than Bahrain right now in terms of violence by the regime, it's just much poorer overall as a population so getting pictures/video out is a lot tougher, that and the fact they switched off the internet.

5:50am Human Rights Watch now says that Libyan Security forces have killed 84 people over three days Here's the breakdown they give on their site:

20 people in Benghazi, 23 in Baida, three in Ajdabiya, and three in Derna. Hospital sources told Human Rights Watch that security forces killed 35 people in Benghazi on February 18, almost all with live ammunition.

7:41am There are reports that the internet access continues to be shut down in Libya today. The AFP reports:

Internet service was cut off in Libya on Friday as the regime evidently moved to strip anti-government protestors of ways to organize and communicate, according to Arbor Networks. Libya "abruptly disconnected" from the Internet at 4:15 pm.(00:15 GMT Saturday), according to the US based tracker of online traffic. Internet traffic in and out of the country halted suddenly after being throttled earlier in the day, according to an Arbor Networks chart titled.

February 19

1:10pm A source inside Benghazi tells Al Jazeera that the situation remains tense there today:

People woke up this morning with dozens of bodies and burnet vehicles in the streets. Snipers are still active in central Benghazi whilst other parts are completely liberated.

A funeral will go out from Al Jalaa Hospital and (perhaps) ... over 120 bodies are there. No details from other towns as mobile networks are very limited.

[donnie]

did u even check the pro-government marches? those keep saying sunni + Shiie are brothers but the whole lulu square was chanting Shiiat prayers. with people using microphones spewing shiiat aim in life. I live there for a long time and i went with this protest in the beginning and i was laughing of the conspiracy but I lead to believe it quickly after it took a deep turn to worst.

go to previous page and check the flags they are carrying, the same leaders marching in lulu are in those pictures before. they were rasing hizbollah flags and what not.

and finally, its easy to say you will die for your country but those were given specific orders to die and i think thats different.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Very interesting yet more confusing from my perspective but the BBC audio I posted earlier today, they interview a Libyan writer and he describes that the structure of the Benghazi military is "tribal" and when it comes to the tribe crossing the red line it is very difficult for them to fire on their own and it is very different from the situation in Tripoli.

[Kuya]

lol i am not justifying the action by army, but i will repeat: we are in the brick of civil war here. it doesnt matter what the government will do now, its too late both sides hate each other guts ( sunni vs shiiat). the official TV is broadcasting some anti-civil war stuff already.

Yes you are, faggot.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Getting twitters quoting a Libyan radio broadcast about a massacre in Benghazi right now from a mortar attack but still trying to verify.
http://www.libyafeb17.com/?p=939

[isladar]

Donnie, come back to the thread when you have well-sourced links to back up what you're saying.

[Plow]

Donnie, come back to the thread when you have well-sourced links to back up what you're saying.

Not "picking his side" here or anything but,

yahoo posting news about protest in bahrain but the pictures showing the pro-goverment rally this morning:

http://en-maktoob.yahoo.com/

check the comments and discussion forum filled with angry people saying how they distorting the truth.

and this is a facebook page with pictures of the pro-government rally:
http://www.facebook.com/amanbahrain

the only reliable source for me was CNN, BBC & AL-Jazeera were very biased torwards the shiaat.

I wont go into the history of why this is occurring, and the mindset of this cult in bahrain that is faking a revolution. but what is happening in bahrain is a beginning of a civil war.

very true, they support the government but explicitly said if Shiiat takes control they will revolt.

edit:

some CNN video clips:

http://www.cnn.com/video/

Click on world news

ninja edit:

and shit just hit the fan now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQ...layer_embedded

yea i posted it in my reply earlier, this is the full video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4_S2IiVfT0

at 3:30 you can hear the people shouting " lets go die, everyone lets go die", then at 4:20 2 guys telling the army to shoot them too, which I think they did.

before that, they were saying to make sure to capture the deaths.

man those are like brainwashed zombies, I was sickened once i saw the short version but after i saw this I just feel sorry for them and pissed at their "imams" i will try to get the recording of their speeches that they have to die to justify the revolution

Seems about half his posts are links to videos or discussion with a few brief comments on it. That's just the last 2 pages, he posted quite a few more links and pictures before that.


tl:dr rather you agree with him or not he's posting interesting stuff

[donnie]

Donnie, come back to the thread when you have well-sourced links to back up what you're saying.

well sourced? I think I am a source since i'v been living there since i was born and actually work next to LuLu square. if anything I am entitled to give my own opinion. more over, I have been posting links to other sites to give another prospective on the story. reporters that have giving their point of view cannot have more clear view then someone who actually lives there.

on the subject of Bahrain:

crown prince interview :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDoEtUHtUwU

few hours later , the al-wifaq party who is leading the protest refused any form of Dialoge until the government resign. all other parties started the dialog but with them not in presence its meaningless since they represent 18/40 seats in the parliament.

found a very neutral report here that basically sums it up until this moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5vz9FWCpk

[Outlaw]

During the Egyptian revolution I thought, "This is so great that this is happening." But now this shit is just getting scary..

[Chicomagiko]

Cant wait for the tea party/repubs to catch this "revolutionary" sickness and start their shit here. Also, lol @ isla. Next time read a few pages b4 calling sources out.