Traditionally, if something happens in Bahrain that even touches on perceived loyalties to the ruling family, or lack thereof, we get full- or at least half-page adverts crying foul and heavily beating chests in demonstration of the advertiser’s eternal love and loyalty to the royal family, or person, or both, at the cost of “those …
I met briefly with Shaikh Ahmed bin Attiyatallah this morning and asked him directly for his comment about the hot topic of this week; what he said is that it is a case of revenge. “I fired the guy and he didn’t like it, so he’s unleashed this ‘thing’[1] as revenge against me” When I …
1. document everything, just in case you need to save your ass. 2. continuously shout out “it wasn’t me” and practice making puppy eyes. 3. depend on morons, just like yourself, who too can’t organise a piss-up in a brewery. 4. spend a lot of money and keep receipts. see 1. 5. hire some mercenaries …
Finally, we have some movement. Of course there is no guarantee that the anticipated movement will be good, as there are no guarantees for it being the opposite, but as the local idiom goes: “الØÂركة بركة” – loosely translated: “in movement there is a blessing” So the king invited the heads of the political societies …
Let the games begin. سلطات الأمنتبعد صلاؠالبندر عنالبلاد أبعدت السلطات الرسمية مساء أمس الأول (الثلثاء) المستشار السابق ÙÂيأØÂد الأجهزة الرسمية صلاؠالبندر، بريطانيالجنسية منأصل سوداني، إلى المملكة المتØÂدة (لندن)ØŒ بعد انتم التØÂقيق معه ÙÂيالليلة Ù†ÙÂسها ÙÂيمبنى النيابة العامة، ØÂيث وجهت له تهمة Ù…ØÂاولة قلب نظام الØÂكم …