Bahrain troops shoot at protesters: ex MP

[RandomGuy]

Speaking of ongoing freakouts:

MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahraini troops shot at protesters near Pearl Square on Friday and wounded many, a former Shi'ite lawmaker said, a day after police forcibly cleared a protest camp from the traffic circle in Manama.

Jalal Firooz, of the Wefaq bloc that resigned from parliament on Thursday, said demonstrators had been elsewhere in the capital, marking the death of a protester killed earlier this week when riot police fired tear gas at them.

The demonstrators then made for Pearl Square, where army troops who took it over after the police raid on Thursday opened fire, he said. "There are many casualties, some are critical," Firooz added. Police had no immediate comment.

Lebanon's Hezbollah-run al-Manar television quoted a doctor at Salmaniya hospital in Manama as saying 25 wounded had been admitted, two of them with serious wounds.

Witnesses said about 20 police cars had driven toward the square and shooting was still going on.

Four people were killed and 231 wounded when riot police raided the protest camp in the early hours of Thursday, when most of the demonstrators were sleeping.

Soldiers in tanks and armored vehicles later took control of the square, which mainly Shi'ite protesters had hoped to use as a base similar to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the heart of protests that toppled Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_bahrain_shooting

Bahrain is a small island run by sunnis and is mostly shia.

Oh yeah, the US has a major naval base there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain

The Government of Bahrain has a cooperative agreement with the United States Military and has provided the United States a base in Juffair since the early 1990s. This is the home of the headquarters for Commander, United States Naval Forces Central Command (COMUSNAVCENT) / United States Fifth Fleet (COMFIFTHFLT), and about 1500 United States and coalition military personnel.[82]

I am thinking that some rather terse phone calls are taking place between the US government and the king at the moment.

[CosmicCowboy]

My guess is they will continue to smash the insurrection. It won't take long to stomp out the troublemakers. This is a tiny country...more people live in San Antonio than Bahrain...