Saudi Arabia Sends Tanks to Bahrain

Saudi Arabia is sending some 30 tanks to Bahrain which were sighted late Monday along the King Fahd causeway linking the two countries, witnesses say.

Witnesses said that the causeway was blocked as "15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each were heading towards Bahrain," Egypt’s Al Masry Al Youm daily reported in its latest edition.

The development follows a decision by the Bahraini military on Saturday to withdraw their vehicles out of the capital’s Pearl Square after a deadly police attack on protesters, a condition the opposition had set to begin talks.

The arrival of tanks from Saudi Arabia also occurs on the eve of yet another scheduled pro-democracy rally on Tuesday organized by the Bahraini opposition and protesters in Manama’s flashpoint Pearl Square.