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By **Robin Yassin-Kassab**

From Qunfuz.Com.

Robin Yassin-Kassab.jpgFollowing the surprise visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Bahrain, home of the American Fifth Fleet, tanks and troops of the Saud family dictatorship have crossed the causeway and are now occupying Manama. The film below shows Bahraini police tactics against unarmed protesters before the Wahhabi goons were called in. Meanwhile, the Khalifa regime is urgently recruiting more mercenaries.

Copyright 2011 Robin Yassin-Kassab

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This post originally appeared at Qunfuz.Com.

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a co-editor and regular contributor at PULSE. He is the author of The Road from Damascus.

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