Ali Naema murdered by Bahrain Security Forces with illegal and negligent of Shotgun using lethal rounds. 17 year old Ali was shot in the back at very close range. Ali is from Sadad Village. Another tragic loss of life at the hands by US supported “friends” in the al Khalifa Regime. Shotguns have become another tool of misery and weapon of choice in the murder of young men since US Security Consultant and “head bashing”, US Chief John Timoney and Scotland Yards, ‘phone scandal cover-up man’, John Yates signed on to help regime. The US State Department praised their role last year as they showed up with US and UK Public Relation firms, expert in spinning tyranny as Western Market Opportunity and transforming the image of torturous regimes into ‘favored Western Trading Partners’.

The murder of Ali is just another in a continuous pattern of murder of young men by the Security Forces. Today, under pressure from Western Governments, a Bahrain Policeman was sentenced to 7 years for murdering another protester in a separate incident. It has become a recognizable pattern of abuse from regime Security Forces and MOI leaders to use violent and bloody methods of retaliation when they are pressured by Western governments to Stop Human Rights Abuse. This is a clear and predictable response from police in retaliation for the conviction of one of their own.

According to an eye witness, Martyr Ali Neama was kicked and dragged on the road after getting shot by shotgun”. The same abuse has been reported in other Security Force Murders. A Physician has verified bruising was visible on young Ali’s body.

Security Forces are expected to assault the funeral at the time of his burial. Police routinely attack funerals of the Bahrain Martyrs and a means of desecration and intimidation.

6 January, 2012

Upon The Occasion of the Appeals Trial for Nabeel Rajab
28 September,2012

SumayaRajab ‏@binmrajab

First, officer Abdulla Dha’en stopped us in the sun on the door of the court &appears to have been implementing superior orders 2 provoke us

After Abdulla &his masters failed to provoke us, prevention news spread & foreigners arrival, they let us in out of fear of scandal #Bahrain

Ironically the killer of martyr Hani AbdulAziz was sitting in the same courtroom and was free while HRD Nabeel Rajab was detained ! #Bahrain

Presenting a HRD to a trial detained and a killer loose! Proved to foreigners what we’ve been saying to them about the #Bahrain’i judiciary

The comparison between the view of Nabeel Rajab in court and the loose killer became a place of laughter and ridicule by attendants #Bahrain

I wish the Minister of Justice attended the trial yesterday to see foreigners laughing on this farce trial #Bahrain

The killer was moving between the police and chatting with them and going out to smoke, while Nabeel was surrounded with police #Bahrain

The defense has pointed out bringing Nabeel to court imprisoned and the killer is loose, but the judge acted as if he did not know! #Bahrain

Judge failed to provide any evidence to convict Nabeel and movies that he used to convict Nabeel was great and had adversely impact #Bahrain

The judge’s violation of the laws and procedures and trying to cram new evidence (2/2) #Bahrain

Because of poor fabricated cases against Nabeel Rajab, the court and with the complicity of P.prosecution manipulated the file #Bahrain

Manipulated the case file and entered new evidence in clear violation of the law #Bahrain

The funny great misfortune that the judge displayed a tape of a speech by Nabeel and immediately the defense revealed that it’s fabricated !

Just imagine a judge in the Court displays fabricated tapes to convict the accused, you know why? Coz his argument is weak and wants an exit

In the first section of the tape, Nabeel in #Manama march raises the V sign &second section pasted, youth throwing Molotov in another area

Second tape displayed by the judge in the court is another huge scandal and the fabrication in it is clear even to the blind ! #Bahrain

It was an attempt to convince the audience that the first section and the second section of the tape is the same protest #Bahrain

Although the cutting and pasting is clear and the sections were in different areas ! #Bahrain

Government is trying desperately to accuse Nabeel w violence to justify his continued imprisonment, but whenever they try they fail #Bahrain

A third tape was displayed by the judge only to Nabeel &lawyers w/o the audience &foreigners on the pretext that screens don’t work #Bahrain

Apparently the tape didn’t help the judge #Bahrain

Skills of the defense team won a victory yesterday in court and Nabeel succeeded again (1/2) #Bahrain

And Nabeel Rajab succeeded again and as usual to turn his trial into a court condemnation of the regime (2/2) #Bahrain

End – Source, Twitter 28 September, 2012

21 April, 2011

UN’s Ban Ki-moon Has No Comment on Bahrain Jailing Zainab al-Khawaja
By Matthew Russell Lee – Inner City Press

UNITED NATIONS, September 27 — With all the talk at the UN General Assembly about the Arab Spring and freedom of expression, the UN’s and others’ failure to speak out again Bahrain jailing Zainab al-Khawaja for tearing up a photo of the King, even when asked, is noteworthy.

On September 26, the day after US President Obama’s speech about freedom of expression and after months of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon statements about the right to non-violent protest, Inner City Press asked Ban’s spokesman Martin Nesirky:

Inner City Press: The daughter of a very prominent Bahrain activist — the daughter’s name is Zainab al-Khawaja — has been sentenced to two months in jail for tearing up the picture of a Bahraini royal, and I am wondering, does the Secretary-General or the Secretariat have any view of this arrest in terms of freedom of speech, or in terms of the right to oppose one’s Government?

Spokesperson Nesirky: No specific comment on this specific case. If that changes, I will let you know.

Twenty-one hours later, no statement had been issued. Nesirky went on to point backward:

Spokesperson Nesirky: But you will have seen that the Secretary-General met already with the Foreign Minister from Bahrain. And I would refer you to the readout that we gave on that.

But here was that readout:

The Secretary-General today met with H. E. Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister reviewed the situation in the region. They also discussed current developments in Bahrain, including the human rights situation. The Secretary-General welcomed the commitment made by His Majesty King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa, to dialogue, good governance and genuine democracy and called on the Government to complete the implementations of the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry and the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review. He also emphasized that a genuine, all-inclusive dialogue that addresses the legitimate aspirations of all Bahraini communities is the best way to promote lasting peace, stability, justice and economic progress in Bahrain.

And days after Ban “welcomed the commitment made by His Majesty King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa, to dialogue, good governance and genuine democracy,” a prominent democracy activist was sentences to prison for tearing up the King’s photograph. Now Ban, and others, have “no specific comment on this specific case.” So it goes at the UN. ..source

Systemic Destabilization as “A Strategy of Tension”: 9/11, the JFK Assassination, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
By Prof Peter Dale Scott – Global Research – 24 September, 2012

Introduction: Structural Deep Events and the Strategy of Tension in Italy

From an American standpoint, it is easy to see clearly how Italian history was systematically destabilized in the second half of the 20th century, by a series of what I call structural deep events. I have defined these as “events, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, which violate the … social structure, have a major impact on … society, repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force.”2

The examples in Italy, well known to Italians, include the Piazza Fontana bombing of 1969, the Piazza della Loggia bombing of 1974, and the Bologna railway bombing of 1980.

These bombings, in which over one hundred civilians were killed and many more wounded, were attributed at the time to marginal left-wing elements of society. However, thanks chiefly to a series of investigations and judicial proceedings, it is now clearly established that the bombings were the work of right-wing elements in collusion with Italian military intelligence, as part of an on-going “strategy of tension” to discredit the Italian left, encourage support for a corrupt status quo, and perhaps move beyond democracy altogether.3 As one of the conspirators, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, later stated, “The December 1969 explosion was supposed to be the detonator which would have convinced the political and military authorities to declare a state of emergency.”4

Vinciguerra also revealed that he and others had also been members of a paramilitary “stay-behind” network originally organized at the end of World War II by the CIA and NATO as “Operation Gladio.”

In 1984, questioned by judges about the 1980 Bologna station bombing, Vinciguerra said: “With the massacre of Peteano, and with all those that have followed, the knowledge should by now be clear that there existed a real live structure, occult and hidden, with the capacity of giving a strategic direction to the outrages…[it] lies within the state itself…There exists in Italy a secret force parallel to the armed forces, composed of civilians and military men, in an anti-Soviet capacity that is, to organise a resistance on Italian soil against a Russian army…A secret organisation, a super-organisation with a network of communications, arms and explosives, and men trained to use them…A super-organisation which, lacking a Soviet military invasion which might not happen, took up the task, on Nato’s behalf, of preventing a slip to the left in the political balance of the country. This they did, with the assistance of the official secret services and the political and military forces.5

Gladio connections to sustained false-flag violence, again involving NATO and the CIA, were subsequently revealed in other countries, notably Belgium and Turkey.6

The original purpose of Gladio was to consolidate resistance in the event of a Soviet takeover. But many of the senior Italians involved in the bombings implicated the CIA and NATO in them as well:

General Vito Miceli, the Italian head of military intelligence, after his arrest in 1974 on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the government, testified “that the incriminated organization, … was formed under a secret agreement with the United States and within the framework of NATO.” Former Italian defense minister Paulo Taviani told Magistrate Casson during a 1990 investigation “that during his time in office (1955-58), the Italian secret services were bossed and financed by ‘the boys in Via Veneto’—i.e. the CIA agents in the U.S. Embassy in the heart of Rome.” In 2000 “an Italian secret service general [Giandelio Maletti] said . . . that the CIA gave its tacit approval to a series of bombings in Italy in the 1970s to sow instability and keep communists from taking power. . . . ‘The CIA wanted, through the birth of an extreme nationalism and the contribution of the far right, particularly Ordine Nuovo, to stop (Italy) sliding to the left,’ he said.”7

Another conspirator, Carlo Digilio, “described how he passed on details of planned bomb attacks to his CIA contact, Captain David Carret, who had told him that the bombing campaign was part of a US plan to create a state of emergency.”8 Daniele Ganser, in his important book Nato’s Secret Armies, has endorsed a Spanish report that in 1990 NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner (a German politician and diplomat) secretly confirmed that NATO’s headquarters, SHAPE, was indeed responsible:

The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), directing organ of NATO’s military apparatus, coordinated the actions of Gladio, according to the revelations of Gladio Secretary-General Manfred Wörner during a reunion with the NATO ambassadors of the 16 allied nations.9

Extrapolating from such testimony, Ola Tunander has compared the strategy of tension in Italy, with its false-flag bombing attacks, to “what the Turkish military elite might describe as the correction of the course of democracy by the ‘deep state’ [a Turkish term].”10 …more

48 hours in Sanabis
Matthew Cassel – 28 September, 2012 – AlJazeera

“We need supplies,” said the doctor, “Who can go get them?” One activist, a computer engineer in his 20s, quickly volunteered and invited me to go with him. It was nearly midnight and the injuries were piling into the makeshift medical clinic in a home in the Sanabis village, a suburb of Manama, the Bahraini capital. Injured protesters couldn’t be brought to hospitals or medical centres where they’d likely be arrested, so they were treated inside the villages. Volunteer medics were out of burn ointment and IV syringes, and needed someone to bring them from another makeshift clinic on the other side of the village.

There was a rare silence outside on the street. The protesters, mostly shabab (youth), had been dispersed only minutes earlier when dozens of police stormed through firing tear gas, rubber bullets and bird shot. The stench of gas still lingered; it never really disappeared fully from Sanabis during the two days of protests there.

We left the house into the streets. Some stone-carrying shabab were starting to return to the main crossings in central Sanabis, standing over broken glass and spent tear gas cartridges – all clearly marked “made in USA” – waiting for the police to return.

We passed through the narrow alleyways, some barely wide enough for a car to pass through. Some parts were well lit with the bright orange glow of the street lights, others pitch black. Some areas were tight giving a sense of protection, while others were more open, leaving us completely exposed for a number of seconds when anything could happen. We could only hope as we approached the next street corner that there wouldn’t be any police waiting around it, while we kept looking backwards to make sure there were none there either. Too fast and we would come upon them with no place to run, too slow and we’d get caught from behind.

In the chance that we did see police, which was more likely than not, we knew it’d already be too late. Their uniforms are unmistakable: blue bodysuits topped with bright white helmets. We had seen their weapons cause countless injuries all day long, and if we were spotted they’d fire at us. Up ahead atop a roof a couple of shabab on lookout waved to let us know the coast is clear. At the next crossing another group motioned for a signal to know if there are any white hats from where we just came.

As we continued to creep along in the shadows an abaya-clad woman peaked through the crack of her front door. “Come in,” she whispered waving her arms for us to get off the street, “do you need anything?” “Thank you, hajjiyyah, we are okay,” the runner whispered back, continuing his mission.

More than seven months after it began with marches of tens of thousands to Manama and sit-ins at the now-destroyed Pearl roundabout, this is what the Bahrain uprising has become.

After a brutal crackdown followed by months of martial law, the uprising is now largely confined to the numerous predominantly Shia villages around the country. It’s an increasingly organised and (still unarmed) guerilla resistance movement against the police force armed with “non-lethal weaponry”. …more

Pugnacious Prick, Patrick Clawson of Washing Institute speaks of provoking War with Iran at US expense…

Bahrain deteriorating
By Brian Dooley – September, 2012 -Foreign Policy

Bahraini human rights activists who went to Geneva to tell the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) about the kingdom’s ongoing government crackdown are again being targeted, this time in the wake of last week’s conclusion to Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. In May, several activists were threatened on social media and criticized in government-friendly newspapers because they appeared in Geneva to participate in the UPR. At that time, Laura Dupuy Lasserre, president of the HRC, reminded the Bahraini government that “we are all duty bound to ensure that nobody is persecuted on his return to his country for having participated in meetings of the human rights council or other bodies.” Bahrain clearly didn’t understand her message.

Right now, Bahraini activists who gave their side of the story in Geneva as part of the UPR are being targeted by government-supporting media in Bahrain. The Al Watan newspaper has featured their names and also published a photo with the activists’ faces ringed in red. In Bahrain, such a “ringing is red” is taken as a threat and has often been a precursor to arrest. Newspaper reports suggest the activists have “contributed to the distortion of Bahrain’s reputation abroad.” One human rights defender, Mohammed Al Maskati, said he received death threats by phone while in Geneva. Such developments signal a further escalation of suspicion about what’s happening in Bahrain. The one thing that Bahraini officials, U.S. government leaders, the opposition, and international NGOs all seem to agree on is that things are bad and probably getting worse.

Earlier this month, the most prominent opposition leaders and dissidents in Bahrain were sentenced to long jail terms after the trumped up charges against them were affirmed by an appeals court. Leading human rights defenders Nabeel Rajab and Zainab Al Khawaja have also recently been detained; Rajab was given a three-year sentence for his part in “illegal gatherings.” And dozens of others are living in limbo. The verdicts for 28 medics detained and tortured last year were again delayed, this time from September 11 to October 2.

Last week, the ministry of the interior announced it will soon “tackle crimes related to defamation and abuse on social media networks” after “it was noticed that some people were using the communication technology to abuse national and public figures through the Internet.” Bahrain is ruled by the Al Khalifa monarchy and its supporters. It’s clear that we should all expect a crackdown on anyone ridiculing the Bahraini royals on Twitter or participating in other forms of non-violent political dissent. The prime minister, coincidentally the king’s uncle, also declared last week that protests in the capita, Manama, would not be tolerated. He noted that opposition groups had “tried to turn Bahrain into a playground for subversion, anarchy and social divide.”

Some protests have taken on a violent edge in recent months as police clash with a minority of demonstrators using petrol bombs and other missiles. Violence doesn’t occur at every protest, but a common pattern is for a protest to deteriorate into missile throwing from a small number of demonstrators while police fire tear gas or rubber bullets or sometimes birdshot. Three weeks ago, a 16 year-old boy was shot dead by police. …more

At General Assembly debate, Bahrain urges UN unity to tackle Syrian crisis
27 September, 2012 – UN News Center

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister issued an urgent appeal in the General Assembly today for the United Nations to find a common position to end the crisis in Syria, where over 18,000 people have been killed since an anti-government uprising erupted 18 months ago.

“Our organization must therefore shoulder its responsibilities for the protection of unarmed civilians and must not allow the procedures of the United Nations to impede its ability to prevent crimes against humanity,” Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed A1 Khalifa told the Assembly on the third day of its annual General Debate, at UN Headquarters in New York.

“It must put aside the narrow geopolitical interests and proceed to the attainment of the supreme goal which is the responsibility to protect civilians in armed conflicts,” he added.

He highlighted Bahrain’s firm faith in the indispensable role of the UN in addressing international and regional problems, adding that the region is now in great need of that role given the speedy and regrettable developments in Syria.

“The international community, represented in the UN and its bodies entrusted with the maintenance of peace and security, is called upon to unify its position so as to put an end to the humanitarian suffering of the Syrian people and to find a political solution to the crisis that brings to an end violence and bloodshed,” he declared.
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Bahrain policeman gets 7 years for killing protester: lawyer
27 September, 2012 – Agence France Presse

DUBAI: A Bahraini court Thursday sentenced a policeman to seven years in prison for killing a protester during the Shiite-led anti-government demonstrations that rocked the tiny Gulf kingdom in 2011, a lawyer said.

“The policeman was sentenced to seven years in prison for the murder of Hani Abdel Aziz,” a Shiite protester, said the lawyer who asked to remain anonymous.

However, the court “acquitted two other officers who were charged with the murder of two other protesters, Ali al-Moumin and Issa Abdel Hasan,” the lawyer added.

All three victims died of wounds sustained in clashes with riot police who used bird shot to disperse the crowds.

On September 17, the kingdom’s attorney general charged a total of seven police officers with torture.

The authorities say they are implementing the recommendations of an independent commission of inquiry called for by the king that confirmed allegations of excessive use of force by security forces during the month-long Arab Spring uprising against the Sunni ruling dynasty.

Home to the US Fifth Fleet and strategically situated across the Gulf from Iran, Bahrain has continued to witness sporadic Shiite-led demonstrations, mostly outside the capital since it crushed the pro-democracy uprising in March last year.

According to Amnesty International, at least 60 people have been killed since the protests first erupted last February.
…more

Anti-Muslim producer detained without bail
28 September, 2012 – Al Akhbar

An Egyptian-American man behind an anti-Islam film that has stoked violent protests across the Muslim world was arrested on Thursday in California for allegedly violating his probation, and a federal judge ordered him jailed without bond.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was taken into custody at an undisclosed location by US marshals and brought to court in Los Angeles still wearing his street clothes but handcuffed and shackled at the waist.

Nakoula has been under investigation by probation officials looking into whether he violated the terms of his 2011 release from prison on a bank fraud conviction while making the film, though authorities have said they were not probing the movie itself.

“The court has a lack of trust in the defendant at this time,” US Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal said in refusing Nakoula’s request for bail at a hearing in US District Court.

His crudely made 13-minute video was filmed in California and circulated online under several titles including “Innocence of Muslims.” It portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a fool and a sexual deviant. …source

Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab’s appeal trial resumes
27 September, 2012 – RT

Leading Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab’s appeal trial to a three year sentence resumes Thursday after his lawyers challenged the trial’s fairness. Rajab will remain in detention, having been refused bail.

Rajab faces three criminal cases against him over his participation in peaceful gatherings in support of human rights and democracy, which the charges note he also helped to organize.

He has been in police custody since July 9, and on August 16 a lower Bahraini court sentenced him to three years for “involvement in illegal practices, inciting gatherings and calling for unauthorized marches through social networking sites.”

On September 10, his request for bail was rejected.

In response to the sentence, Rajab’s son Adam tweeted, “jail me for 3 years or 30, I will never give up,” quoting his father.

Rajab told the court that he had been mistreated in prison.

The three-year sentence followed a three-month prison term for posting anti-government messages on Twitter that had been handed down to him on July 9.

He had tweeted in June that residents of the town of Muharraq had made a show of support for Bahrain’s prime minister only because they were paid to do so.

He was fined $800 on June 27 for the critical tweet.

Prior to this, he was arrested and released twice in May after appearing as a guest on The World Tomorrow, broadcast by RT and hosted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, where he criticized the US invasion of Iraq and Washington’s refusal to take action during the Bahraini protests.

Rajab is a fierce critic of the Bahraini authorities and a prominent international human rights activist. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East Division.

He is also one of Bahrain’s best known bloggers, and being in jail has not slowed down his popularity, with his Twitter account boasting over 170,000 followers.

During Thursday’s hearing, Rajab’s lawyers will argue that defense evidence was not heard before he was convicted and sentenced.

Souhayr Belhassen, President of the International Federation for Human Rights, condemned the sentence, saying “it’s been over a year that the Bahraini people have been peacefully asking for human rights and democracy. How does the government remain so deaf to these calls?”

In a separate case on September 10, Bahraini human rights blogger Zainab al-Khawaja also appeared in court. She has been jailed for participating in peaceful protests, with 13 cases currently filed against her.

The World Organization Against Torture issued a statement Thursday calling for Bahraini authorities to respect Bahrainis’ rights to peaceful assembly and expression.

Anti-regime protests in the island nation, home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet, have been ongoing since the beginning of February 2011. As of April 2012, at least 50 people have been killed in the clashes, with nine of them under the age of 18.

Human Rights Watch has repeatedly condemned the Bahraini police for using excessive force against protesters. The police’s conduct in Bahrain has been described as “brutal,” with midnight raids, beatings at checkpoints and even activists being denied medical care. Around 3,000 people have been arrested since the opposition movement began.

The protestors were initially calling for greater political freedom for the majority Shia population, but after a deadly night of clashes with police on February 17, 2011, they are also demanding the end of the monarchy of King Hamad, a Sunni Muslim whose government received Western backing. …source

Press Release-Bahrain:The Launch of a Website that Monitors Human Rights Conditions with Photos and Videos
28 September, 2012 – Bahrain youth Society for Human Rights

The Bahrain Youth Society for Human (BYSHR) Rights launched yesterday the website “Bahrain Hub ” which is a website that monitors the human rights conditions in Bahrain by using photos and videos, as well as monitoring the articles and news published about Bahrain in the international media.

The BYSHR said that, “the correspondents, journalists, those working in the media and citizens can send photos and videos about the daily events in the different areas and the human rights violations.”

Mr.Mohammed Al-Maskati – BYSHR president – confirmed that, “the website has been divided into three parts, and a number of volunteer photographers will contribute with the BYSHR by monitoring human rights violations and publishing them in Arabic and English.

Mr.Al-Maskati clarified that the “website has been divided according to the Bahraini villages and towns and this will facilitate the search for international organizations and media.” …more

See New Site HERE