Reports that 1000 Saudi troops have entered Bahrain (AJE, Mar 14)

Sorry about this video being cropped at the beginning! The first words of the video are not confirming, it is just said that there are reports of Saudi forces having entered Bahrain.

Aljazeera English article on the matter:

Saudi troops 'sent into Bahrain'

Reports say military force deployed to Gulf neighbour to help protect government facilities after weeks of unrest.

A Saudi military force of about 1,000 troops has entered Bahrain to help protect government facilities there, according to reports citing Saudi sources.

The reports on Monday, which Al Jazeera could not immediately confirm, follow weeks of unrest in the tiny Gulf State, which lies between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

"About 1,000 Saudi soldiers entered Bahrain early on Monday morning through the causeway to Bahrain," the Reuters news agency reported a Saudi source as saying, referring to the 26km causeway that connects the island kingdom to Saudi Arabia.

"They are part of the Gulf Co-operation Council [GCC] force that would guard the government installations."

Abdel al-Mowada, the deputy chairman of Bahrain's parliament, told Al Jazeera: "I cannot gurantee it 100 per cent. We heard that they [the Saudi force] are coming ... but it is not 100 percent guaranteed [that they are here]."

The move follows a request from Bahrain for help from its Gulf Arab neighbours as the country's Sunni rulers face growing pressures from its majority Shia population to institute political reforms.

The Gulf Daily News newspaper had reported that forces from the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), a six-member regional bloc, would be arriving in the country on Monday with a mission "limited to protecting vital facilities".

The Guardian newspaper also reported on Monday that Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Bahrain's crown prince, would formally request a Saudi intervention.

But the involvement of Saudi troop is unlikely to receive much support among the protesters who worry that the foreign force will be used to clear Pearl Roundabout, the scene of much of the protest in Bahrain.

Even some government supporters fear the economic impact of a Saudi intervention.

"Who would want to do business here if there are Saudi tanks rolling across the causeway?" asked Abdullah Salaheddin, a Bahraini banker, last week.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/03/2011314124928850647.html

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• Bahrain
• protests
• Saudi
• troops
• intervention

[howtofuckamockinbird]

Holy shit did you guys see that cop shot a projectile at a protester at point blank!!

Anyway, violence against violence will not solve problems in the long run. Such rulers are to fall sooner or later.

[dontdoitnow]

@saoudkindy they dont want trouble, then that asshole king shud start making concessions becuz last i checked the country was for the ppl not him and his mother, the ppl want to demonstrate thats their right

[dontdoitnow]

@saoudkindy ur link doesnt work, that being said, they find their living conditions SHIT, now if some small group of ppl have better living conditions good for them, this group find their living conditions shit, theyre not allowed in the army theyre not allowed the good jobs therye pretty much neglected for being shia, they say **** you we dont accept that.

its really that simple

[saoudkindy]

@dontdoitnow well they're only showing you one part of the story, think for a second. Which group of people are really getting affected by these protests? Well here's the answer, the medium class citizens, the hard workers that work all their life to make a living. I've linked you a video to watch but you're obviously too much of a stubborn cock to even bother watching it, meh no use discussing with you, might aswell have a conversation with a wall. At least then I wouldn't have to correct it.

[dontdoitnow]

@saoudkindy ill informed of wat? lol that the cops in this video runnin around shooting like lunatics are actors? or theyre maybe justified becuz the shias in bahrain have iranian roots? wats ur point? spit it out?

they shudnt protest? they shud keep their mouth shut and let these thugs run the country like that want?

srsly wat r u babling about?

[saoudkindy]

@dontdoitnow wrong again, I'm not British nor do I have any relative that have any british ancestors.

Regarding the video, here's the link.

/watch?v=xEVn3CyDf20

You might want to reconsider your statements just spitting out random stuff isn't really helping you especially if you've been ill informed.

[dontdoitnow]

@saoudkindy wat universities? thats not in ANY video except for ur words, all we see is ppl demonstrating against the mafia that runs the country , ur british arent u

[saoudkindy]

@dontdoitnow Of course that's what you're going to see, because thats what the you and the media want to see. Police brutality... If its about getting rid of "crummy thugs" then why are the Shiaas going apeshit and attacking universities where students (majority suni) are studying? Care to elaborate.

[dontdoitnow]

@saoudkindy AGAIN this is not about suni shia this is about gettin rid of some crummy thugs who think its their hereditary right to take a nation and its resources for their own benefit. if it werent for the shias it wud b like the other pathetic arab gulf countries , royal family stealing while ppl starve and based on the video i see, i see a bunch of police thugs shooting protestors.

[saoudkindy]

@dontdoitnow You're obviously in denial, the only people that can actually comment on what's going on are the ones that know about the actual background, did you for a second care about Bahrain before the protests began? Do you know any history about the country? I've said it before and I'll say it again, the parliament were urging the citizens to beat Sunis, not start a protest but just blindly beat any Sunis they see, now how is that just talking?