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Yes it is in Bahrain - it happend after midnight on Friday night, i.e. early Saturday morning. After Ali was run over by a police car, mercenaries cleaned up blood and remains from the crime scene, and an ambulance later picked up his body.
His father said that it is difficult to look at Ali's body, as it has been run over in a terribly brutal way. May God help his family!"
Since February, dozens of other protesting Bahrainis were murdered in cold blood. So far, it hasn't gone this far in America.
Given Washington's appetite for violence, belligerence in all forms can't be ruled out if authorities decide on much harsher ways to crack down.
Some critics are silenced other ways. On November 18, Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abuninah said Washington's National Press Club suspended journalist Sam Husseini for asking former Saudi intelligence head Prince Turki al-Faisal this question:
"There's been a lot of talk about the legitimacy of the Syrian regime. I want to know what legitimacy your regime has, sir.""You come before us, representative of one of the most autocratic, misogynistic regimes on the face of the earth."
"Human Rights Watch and others report of torture and detention of activists. You squelched the democratic uprising in Bahrain. You tried to overturn the democratic uprising in Egypt, and indeed you continue to oppress your own people."
"What legitimacy does your regime have - other than with billions of dollars and weapons" supporting you?
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