Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A picture paints a thousand words




Who's been a naughty boy then? Crown Prince of Bahrain, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, is looking very nervous before a none too pleased Hilary Clinton during a 'brief' meeting on June 7th. Relations between the two allies have become somewhat fraught in recent weeks as the al-Khalifi regime has been busy proving what a brutal US client it really is, even going as far as to running state security court trials for doctors accused of 'treating injured protesters'. Read Simon Henderson's recent analysis here.

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