Bahrain, US Exchange Lessons of Crackdown
Bahrain's Interior Ministry announced that the former Miami police chief John Timoney will lead training programs for Bahraini security forces.
Timoney is most notable for his violent handling of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) Protests in 2003.
On November 2003, Tens of thousands of demonstrators who came to Miami to protest the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial meetings met with police harassment, provocation, and brutality.
More than 100 protesters were treated for injuries, 12 were hospitalized and an estimated 250 were arrested.
In a parallel movement, "al-Akhbar" English Lebanese daily unveiled that at the American police departments Urban Shield featured a unit from the military of Bahrain, which had just crushed a largely non-violent democratic uprising by opening fire on protest camps and arresting wounded demonstrators when they attempted to enter hospitals.
Source: News Agencies, Al-Akhbar Lebanese daily, Edited by moqawama.org
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