Monday May 9, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

Bahrain announced yesterday that they will be lifting their state of emergency as of June 1.

Technically, that means that the highly restrictive rules preventing protests and enabling the army and police to arrest anyone for almost anything will be lifted.

What it really means is that the leadership of Bahrain, together with the leadership of Saudi Arabia, feel that the entire internal crisis will be calmed in the next 3 weeks.

The Saudis are the real power behind the Bahraini royal family. The tensions are actually sectarian. Sunni versus Shiite.

This tension between Sunnis and Shiites is centuries old. In today's world that tension pins the Saudis against the Iranians.

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