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"Bahrain orders US aide to leave" Associated Press July 09, 2014
MANAMA, Bahrain — A senior US diplomat who was ordered to leave the Middle Eastern nation of Bahrain after meeting with a leading Shi’ite opposition group said Tuesday that the American ally’s move appears aimed at undermining reconciliation efforts between the government and the opposition.
Tom Malinowski, the US assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, made the comments on his Twitter feed a day after Bahrain’s foreign ministry said he is not welcome in the island nation, which has long hosted the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
Bahrain alleged he intervened in the country’s domestic affairs by holding meetings with some groups at the expense of others. The order to leave came after he held talks with Bahrain’s main Shi’ite opposition group, Al Wefaq.
He arrived in the country Sunday and had been scheduled to stay for three days.
On Tuesday, Al Wefaq said two of its leading members were summoned by the Bahraini Interior Ministry for questioning the next day.
In his Twitter comments, Malinowski said Bahrain’s decision to expel him is ‘‘not about me but about undermining dialogue. Those committed to reconciliation should not be deterred.’’
Bahrain continues to face low-level unrest more than three years after a Shi’ite-dominated opposition movement inspired by the Arab Spring protests took to the streets to demand greater political rights from the Sunni monarchy.
The oppression is hardly covered because a) it's Shi'ites being oppressed, and more importantly b) long host of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
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Left a bruise, readers.
