BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARABIA, AND THE UNITED STATES: Interview with Zainab Alkhawaja and Nabeel Rajab http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/ar130411.html

Zainab Alkhawaja: My message to Obama is basically that he has to choose. He has to choose if his administration is really with human rights, democracy, and freedom, as he claimed, and with change towards democracy. Or is he more concerned about supporting his friends who are dictators in the Middle East? The American administration has always been speaking about human rights and freedom and democracy. But their action in Bahrain proves otherwise. It proves that they care more about their relations with a dictator here and that they're willing to support him even when he is oppressing and killing and detaining and torturing pro-democracy protesters