[LarryLied]

Unusual for Bahrain, we need these bases.

[LarryLied]

Ping to the half dozen or so freepers interested in Bahrain and our troops there.

[Pipers]

Have the Israelis blown up the church where Our Savior Jesus Christ was born yet?

[samtheman]

We don't need bases in unfriendly countries. We need more carrier groups.

[bourbon]

WOMEN of all nationalities are to hold a silent demonstration in support of the people of Palestine in front of the UN House in Hoora today.

Really? Were there Israeli women among their number?

the global phenomenon Women in Black.

What is this a consortium of angst-ridden art students!? I'm scared.

[SalukiLawyer]

People who possess both a deeply held devotion to nonsense and explosives are hard to deal with.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

PING

[hellinahandcart]

"Silence of the American Lambs"? Would it make any sense even in Arabic?

[American Preservative]

...which we call the 2002 Palestinian Holocaust.

Remember what I said about the Arabs taking/stealing/usurping (imo) from the Jews? Here's another example.

So, unoriginal....yawn.

[MeekOneGOP]

Gee, I could say that these people aren't people but are more like wild animals, but that would be a high insult to animals everywhere...........

Chairman Arafat
Mark Steyn Link Excerpt:

Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs. It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. So does Saddam Hussein, whose government (the subject of an admiring article in this week's Spectator) gives $25,000 to the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber. So does the Arab League, which at last year's summit passed a resolution hailing the "spirit of sacrifice" of the Palestinian "martyrs" and thus licensed Wednesday's massacre. As for the "peace process", those Europeans who, just a few months ago, were urging the Americans to cease operations for Ramadan evidently feel no compunction to demand from Chairman Arafat and his dark subsidiaries any similar "bombing pause" for Passover.

In the days after September 11, we were told that Muslims had great respect for their fellow "people of the book" - ie, Jews and Christians. This ought to be so: after all, the dramatis personae of the Koran include Abraham, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. It's one thing to believe that the Israelis are occupiers and oppressors and that the Zionist state should not exist. But no Muslim with any understanding of his shared heritage could in good conscience blow up a Passover Seder. It marks a new low in the Palestinians' descent into nihilism - though, as usual, the silence of the imams is deafening. As for the nonchalance of the Europeans, that too should not surprise us: in my experience, the Continent's Christians, practising and nominal, find the ceremonies of Jewish life faintly creepy, notwithstanding that these were also the rituals by which their own Saviour lived.

But this year, when the Christians' solar calendar and the Jews' lunar calendar have coincided and Easter and Passover fall together, it's a safe bet that George W Bush will make the connection. The first time I ever heard him speak, he spoke openly about his faith and about Christ in a way that would be unimaginable for a British politician. He will know all the details - "the baby tried to crawl away, but it died, too".......................

[Nix 2]

You are being an agitator, Larry. You know this protest had nothing to do with our Military Bases and you made it seem as if it was the case anyway. It behooves you to post Arabic propaganda to incite Americans, but the words you added to the title are misrepresentations, the worst kind of anti-semitism, and you know it full well. Here is the story, and our bases were never endangered, nor will they be.

MANAMA (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Bahrain said on Saturday that protesters who stormed its premises on Friday had set mission vehicles on fire, compelling its security personnel to use teargas to repel the intrusion. The protest in the conservative Gulf Arab state, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, was spurred by anger against the week-old Israeli offensive in the West Bank.

"Some demonstrators entered the embassy compound and set embassy vehicles on fire," a U.S. embassy statement said.

"In response to this provocation, embassy security personnel fired tear gas cylinders to compel the intruders to leave the embassy ground," it said. "Embassy personnel did not fire at demonstrators."

An embassy worker said the mission had closed its doors on Saturday but would open for business on Sunday.

Bahrain Information Minister Nabeel Yacoub al-Hamer told the official Bahrain news agency the demonstration had started as a peaceful protest, but some people had "infiltrated" into the crowd and attacked the embassy.

A political activist said about 80 people had been taken to hospital for treatment to injuries from rubber bullets or teargas and at least one person had been arrested. A hospital doctor later told Reuters none of the injuries was serious.

Hamer denied there had been any arrests or injuries apart from those affected by teargas.

"All that happened was that they (officers) used teargas to disperse a number of people who sneaked up and attacked the American embassy building. Some of those were affected by teargas and were taken to hospital and released."

The demonstration was one of the biggest political gatherings for some years in the small island state.

Several peaceful rallies have been held in neighboring Gulf Arab states since Israel launched a new offensive in the West Bank following a spate of Palestinian suicide bombings.

Conservative Gulf Arab states have found themselves walking a tightrope as public anger mounts against their key Western ally, the United States, for what ordinary people see as its pro-Israeli bias.

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The kind of people who *infiltrated* this demonstration sounds like YOUR kind of people. Your same kind of desperate attempt to turn Americans on Americans and give succor to terrorists who came here to destroy us. It would be a shame if these good people fell for your underhanded motives.