Activists say that because Bahraini government is a strategic ally of the United States — the Navy’s Fifth Fleet is based there — and of Saudi Arabia, the violent suppression of protests has not received the same attention from the international community as the brutal crackdowns in Syria and, before that, Libya.

— The New York Times on the U.S.-supported brutal crackdown of protestors in Bahrain.

(Source: antiwar.com)

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