It used to be just 9 that were blocked: Bahrain Online Montadayat al Bahrain Bahrain National Committee for Martyrs and Victims of Torture Sarah al Watani Ahrar al Bahrain Bahrain Times Al Saheefa Tubli.net Rezgar and now, it appears that someone who is really shaking in his boots and deems it very necessary to protect …
<whispering> the silence is absolutely deafening lately. as the bchr has observed, it’s been a whole month since they kicked dr. salah albandar out of bahrain; it’s also been a few days since the high criminal court has issued its infamous gag order on the local press not to discuss part of the case, yet …
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 …