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Bahraini protestors run for cover after police fired tear gas canisters to disperse them in the village of Diraz, northwest of Bahrain on Feb. 14 during a demonstration called for on Facebook and inspired by similar initiatives which led to the ouster of the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.
Hamad I Mohammed / Reuters
A Bahrain woman shows empty packages of tear gas and sound bomb used by riots police in Manama on Feb. 14. Small-scale clashes erupted in two Bahraini villages as security forces tightened their grip on Shi'ite communities for Monday's "Day of Rage" protests inspired by upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia. Helicopters circled over the capital Manama, where protesters were expected to gather in the afternoon, and police cars stepped up their presence in Shi'ite villages, breaking up one protest with teargas and rubber bullets. At least 14 people were injured in clashes overnight and on Monday.
Hamad I Mohammed / Reuters
A protester collapses after inhaling tear gas during a demonstration in Manama Feb. 14. Bahraini police fired teargas and rubber bullets to break up protests on Monday in Shi'ite villages that ring the capital Manama, dampening a "Day of Rage" stimulated by popular upheaval in Egypt and Tunisia.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time.
The punishing tactics by authorities underscored the sharply rising tensions in the tiny island kingdom — a strategic Western ally and home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
Riot police — some firing bird shot pellets — moved against marchers in various sites to prevent a mass gathering in the capital, Manama, that organizers intended as an homage to Egypt's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the popular revolt that drove Hosni
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What is it that the Bahrain woman is showing? Why it's one of America's finest exports, the MP-4-F3 from NonLethal Technologies, manufacturers of a wide range of non-lethal riot and crowd control equipment for military and law enforcement applications. The MP-4-F3 discharges 3 foam rubber batons. The 17 gram batons are made of 30 durometer foam. For direct fire.
Here's to American ingenuity.
That is a 'CSI' tear weaponized gas canister in Bahraini womans hand. (Consolidated Systems, Inc. A company owned by Jews in Pennsylvania that 'proudly' fly the apartheidnik Israel flag over their corporate offices - they sell riot gear, tear gas canisters and <Suspected of producing poison gas canisters for Bahrain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait>).
this is the right way to punish these they don`t like peace in country.foooooooools.
you globe saw the women pic.they wear expensive and in their hand filled with latest mobiles. the govenment given them all free and they like only unstable the country.
in women pic all are wear expensive and had the latest mobiles in their hands and then ask they are in needy condition.LOL. the human rights groups are not fooools like these protesters.
we in the west only hope for transparency of governments.