Sheik Khalifa Al Khalifa the only one tripping and dellusional here

May 12, 2011, 6:03 pm
Bahrain’s Protesters Were Drugged, Official Claims
By ROBERT MACKEY

Adopting what might be called the Qaddafi defense, the head of Bahrain’s military claimed that the country’s brutal crackdown on dissent was entirely justified because the kingdom’s security forces had been confronted by young protesters under the influence of mind-altering drugs.

According to Bahrain’s state news agency, Sheik Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said on Wednesday that “young people were given pills which affected their minds and made them do unusual things.” He also claimed “that Bahrain had been the victim [of] a conspiracy involving foreign agents and financing.”

Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim royal family has claimed that protesters from the kingdom’s Shiite majority were terrorists sponsored by their coreligionists in Iran.

The commander of the Bahrain Defence Force said that the young people had been drugged at the Pearl Roundabout, a traffic circle in Manama, Bahrain’s capital, that was occupied by protesters until it was cleared by the security forces in a deadly raid. The area was later renamed the Gulf Cooperation Council Roundabout and given “a facelift,” which included the destruction of a monument on the site that had become an icon of the protest movement.

The Bahrain News Agency – which has a banner across the top of its Web site with a photograph of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and the text “We Are All Hamad” – also reported that Mr. Khalifa said that the Saudi-led force sent to Bahrain to help suppress the demonstrations will remain in Bahrain after the current state of emergency is lifted, “in anticipation of any foreign threat.” …source