Bahrain will use US weapons to oppress internal dissidents: Grossman
Bahrain will use US weapons to oppress internal dissidents, while Washington contends that the weapons will be used against external threats, says international lawyer Barry Grossman.
He made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday after the US State Department announced that it lifted the ban on military aid to Bahrain despite the Middle Eastern country’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Grossman said President Barack “Obama is trying to sell the US policy shift by saying that weapons are needed in Bahrain to support the fight against external threats and regional terrorism. He even has the retired career CIA man and now Brookings Institution pundit Bruce Riedel predicting that the next Islamic State strike could come in Bahrain.”
He cited an analyst as saying that the majority of these weapons Bahrain claims will use for “external defense” are going to be “used to suppress internal dissent as well.”
He went on to say that US supports oppression of the Bahraini protesters “to prevent the spread of large-scale Shiite unrest into Saudi Arabia. No doubt the same can be said for its position in Yemen.”
The analyst added that Washington is concerned mostly about the vast oil reserves in the region and that “most of the world’s conventional oil reserves are located in areas of the Persian Gulf – both within and outside of the KSA – which have a Shia majority.”
“In this regard, it seems trite to point out that their concern is not doctrinal but rather, as ever, as much about oil as anything else,” he noted.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Grossman said that the US aims to use its allies in the Middle East region “in much the same way it uses NATO elsewhere.”
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