Regime sets up “crash and burn” scenario for race day as MOI murders another activist – leave now before the flames!

editor: The al Khalifa regime is apparently clueless or is so over confident in their brutal reign, they expect the good people of Bahrain to tolerate this atrocity and the continued detention of “freedom or death” hunger striker Alkhawaja’, suffering as he lay near death. It is incomprehensible why the regime would lure the F1 teams and it’s sponsors with lies of security, as the regime facilitates riotous conditions that that could well be far more dire than those during the Saudi invasion of March 2011. It truly seems the regime is agitating riotous conditions to occur on race day. Crash and burn King Hamad you arrogant mother fucker! Phlipn.

Bahrain: Activist found dead ahead of Grand Prix
BBC – 21 April, 2012

A man has been killed in Bahrain during overnight clashes with the security forces, activists say, a day before Sunday’s F1 Grand Prix.

Officials said an investigation had been launched after his body was discovered in a Shia village near the capital, Manama.

On Friday, tens of thousands took part in at times violent protests demanding an end to the crackdown on dissent.

The discovery came as practice and qualifying sessions for the Grand Prix were taking place. Mainly Shia protesters have announced “days of rage” against the race.

Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, only went ahead with the Grand Prix after the government said it had security under control.

Last year’s Grand Prix was cancelled after 35 people died in February and March during a crackdown on mass demonstrations calling for greater democracy.

The protesters demand an end to discrimination against the majority Shia Muslim community by the Sunni royal family.

Human rights groups and activists estimate that at least 25 people have died since the start of the protests, many as a result of what has been described as the excessive use of tear gas.

Investigation
Activists from opposition group al-Wefaq named the man found dead on Saturday as Salah Abbas Habib, 37, and accused government forces of killing him.

An earlier unconfirmed report said the man had been found with gunshot wounds.

Chief of Public Security Major-General Tariq Al Hasan confirmed his body had been found in “suspicious circumstances” and said more details of the investigation would be released as they became available.

On Friday, Bahrain’s Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, said cancelling the Grand Prix “just empowers extremists”, and insisted that holding the race would “build bridges across communities”.

Jean Todt, the president of the motor racing governing body, the FIA, said he had no regrets about the race, as extensive investigations into the situation in Bahrain had unearthed “nothing (that) could allow us to stop the race”. …more