Nothing new really. Everyone is still on lockdown. Manama Embassy has issued 2 notices today: 1) All American citizens are to avoid traveling to Manama (that’s a no-brainer) and 2) All U.S. citizens are to remain in their residences until further notice.
As far as today’s ugliness goes my daughter reported that the media and the embassy’s info is conflicting (surprise, surprise). Our side says that a small group of protestors started to come close to the pearl roundabout where the Bahraini Defence Force was stationed to keep people from gathering there again. The BDF warned the protestors to back off and when they didn’t, they shot 3 or 4 warning shots into the air.
But the word the embassy got was that the protestors brought bags of blood with them and poured it all over themselves when the warning shots were fired to make it look like they were hit. That of course angered the BDF and they started throwing the tear gas and everything erupted from there.
But it has been confirmed that the police had moved toward the Salminiya hospital because that’s where protestors had begun gathering and they wanted to break it up. Also word is there has begun to be a contingent of pro-govt protestors protesting the shiite protestors. Don’t know much more about that one. But if I have a choice between believing everything our media reports, or my daughter’s reports, I tend to side with my daughter over the lamestream media. Definitely seems to be some outside interference on this one, along with some media manipulation for sure.
In a nutshell everything has gone nuts and blew up again and the people are screaming for the King to be overthrown. Word is the King has asked the Crown Prince to begin talks and try to clam things down. We are all in a waiting mode to see what transpires.
My daughter is fine as long as she stays in her home, which she is doing. So far westerners are not being specifically targeted, although that could change, so its kind of a waiting mode. Still praying though that either things begin to calm down (seems like each day gets uglier than the first), or they start evacuating non-essential personnel.
thanks for the update. much appreciated.
PRAYERS AND HUGS.
Nothing new really. Everyone is still on lockdown. Manama Embassy has issued 2 notices today: 1) All American citizens are to avoid traveling to Manama (that’s a no-brainer) and 2) All U.S. citizens are to remain in their residences until further notice.
As far as today’s ugliness goes my daughter reported that the media and the embassy’s info is conflicting (surprise, surprise). Our side says that a small group of protestors started to come close to the pearl roundabout where the Bahraini Defence Force was stationed to keep people from gathering there again. The BDF warned the protestors to back off and when they didn’t, they shot 3 or 4 warning shots into the air.
But the word the embassy got was that the protestors brought bags of blood with them and poured it all over themselves when the warning shots were fired to make it look like they were hit. That of course angered the BDF and they started throwing the tear gas and everything erupted from there.
But it has been confirmed that the police had moved toward the Salminiya hospital because that’s where protestors had begun gathering and they wanted to break it up. Also word is there has begun to be a contingent of pro-govt protestors protesting the shiite protestors. Don’t know much more about that one. But if I have a choice between believing everything our media reports, or my daughter’s reports, I tend to side with my daughter over the lamestream media. Definitely seems to be some outside interference on this one, along with some media manipulation for sure.
In a nutshell everything has gone nuts and blew up again and the people are screaming for the King to be overthrown. Word is the King has asked the Crown Prince to begin talks and try to clam things down. We are all in a waiting mode to see what transpires.
My daughter is fine as long as she stays in her home, which she is doing. So far westerners are not being specifically targeted, although that could change, so its kind of a waiting mode. Still praying though that either things begin to calm down (seems like each day gets uglier than the first), or they start evacuating non-essential personnel.
A sincere question - does it take our embassy being specifically threatened before our government wakes up and decides we may want to get our people out of harms way?
Thank you for the update. Prayers continue...