His Excellency Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs wins coveted Crooked Bough Horseshit Award and Gag Me award.

UN Human Rights Council Accepts Bahrain Universal Periodic Review

By Kingdom of Bahrain – 19 September, 2012

MANAMA, Bahrain, Sept. 19, 2012 — PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — After Bahrain fully accepted 145, and partially accepted 13, recommendations outlined in the U.N. Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the Human Rights Council accepted Bahrain’s report this morning in Geneva.

His Excellency Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, delivered the opening statement Wednesday highlighting Bahrain’s achievement in applying the council’s recommendations. He noted, “We all agree on the fundamental principles, which are free speech and fair treatment of those accused and convicted of crimes.” H.E. Shaikh Khalid affirmed, “The rule of law is the essential condition of a society that respects human rights,” stressing that “all segments of society need to play a constructive role” in upholding human rights concerns.

In his remarks, His Excellency the Minister noted that Bahrain’s commitment to implement UPR recommendations focused primarily concerned “criminal justice issues, prevention of torture, rights of women, protection of children and minorities, ratification of international treaties, preventing human trafficking, and fully implementing the recommendations outlined in the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI).”

In her response, the President of the UN Human Rights Council, Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, expressed her gratitude that the Kingdom assented to voluntarily provide an interim report to the Council prior to the next UPR.

SOURCE Kingdom of Bahrain

Revisiting Bin Ahmed’s Royal lies from May, 2011

Howard Hawk’s film “To Have and Have Not”, based upon the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, features the actor Dan Seymour playing the character of Vichy France’s Gestapo police chief Captain M. Renard during WWII on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Capt. Renard is a sinister, corrupt, and abusive brute who gets his comeuppance at the end of the film when Humphrey Bogart’s character, Harry ‘Steve’ Morgan, pistol whips him into arranging a safe escape off the island for Harry et al. An example of Capt. Renard’s methods is witnessed in the following bribe offered to Harry, of paying him $500 plus the $825 that Renard confiscated earlier, to betray two French Resistance fighters:

What is striking is the resemblance (in temperament, personae, as well as in physicality) between the character of Capt. Renard and the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa

Bahrain’s Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa as Captain Renard – Creepy!!!

bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, maybe better suited for role as Ahmed, the Doorman in Casablanca