US, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain ramp up for Gassing Jewish Villages

cb editor: Undoubtedly the headline above set off an alarm for some who ended up here. Lethal gassing of the Bahrainis continues every day. Its time the world pay attention. Not only do the standards by which the la Khalifa regime gasses Bahrainis, mostly Shiite, not meet acceptable use of Less-than-lethal it is condoned by the sales and distribution of the chemicals and weapons from US manufactures. The supply chain belongs to the United States as does the training of the Police that abuse them.

US Congress and the UK MPs need to step-up and stop this assault on humanity. It is way past time to demand a stop to this horrid abuse of the Bahraini people. Its unacceptable ans it it were indeed a Jewish Population the whole world would be outraged. Enough is enough already! Stop the gassing now! Is another dead infant or elderly person in Bahrain acceptable to you Members of Parliament and US Congress acceptable to you, or are you all just a bunch of amoral spineless bastards? Phlipn

Gassing the revolution: The US origins of Tahrir’s tears – is also the source Bahraini tears of greif
25 November 25, 2011

Egyptian security forces are digging deeper into their budget with each volley of increasingly fatal US-made tear gas they launch at demonstrators.

The human cost of the violent crackdown in central Cairo is increasingly clear — among the 39 fatalities reported to date, several are said to have died of asphyxiation caused by tear gas.
But the financial background to the use of crowd control weapons raises questions about the extent of Washington’s financial assistance to Egypt’s military and how this might filter down to the ministry of interior.

The USA is the biggest arms supplier to Egypt, providing an average of US$1.3 billion in military and law equipment every year since 2000.

Records from the US Department of State show the US supplied $1.7 million of “toxicological agents” — “including tear gases and riot control agents” — to Egypt in 2010.

This was the largest dispatch of such agents in at least 10 years.

In 2009, the US supplied 33,000 units of ‘tear gas and riot control agents’ worth $460,000. It did not supply in 2007 nor 2008, but gave 17,000 units worth $240,000 in 2006, documents show.

This assistance, however, was granted to the military, and it is not clear whether it was then channelled to the ministry of interior.

The Central Security Forces (CSF), Egypt’s riot control machine, is a division within the Ministry of Interior, but is closely tied to the armed forces, as its troops are conscripted through the military then transferred to CSF.

“The military’s arming includes tear gas and riot control weapons. The ministry of interior supposedly buys its own weaponry through other channels,” Mahmoud Kotri, a retired brigadier general who wrote a book suggesting radical police reforms, told Ahram Online.

Kotri confirmed that when the current minister of interior, Mansour El-Essawy, was appointed in March he issued explicit instructions to CSF not to carry live ammunition when confronting protesters. …more