How the tiny kingdom of Bahrain strong-armed the President of the United StatesThe Pentagon and murder in Bahrain http://www.voltairenet.org/article169060.html

U.S. Defense Departments documents, scrutinized by TomDispatch, reveal that as far back as the 1990s the United States has been supplying vast quantities of military equipment to Bahraini security forces, which have currently unleashed a bloody repression against peaceful mass demonstrations demanding an end to the corrupt Al-Khalifa dynasty.