Arabic News Weekly Edition for Bahrain, 2/17/2003
Weekly Edition, Bahrain - Week of February 17, 2003
- Opposition official: the demonstrator against war on Iraq are 'naive'
The chairman of the local government in al-Suleimaneyah to the north of Iraq, Barham Saleh, said yesterday that there is a "strong moral case" to launch a war against Saddam Hussein's regime in order to "end decades of total extermination and oppression against the Iraqi people." He described the moves of protests against the American threats as "naive." Bahrain, Politics, 2/22/2003 - Al-Shara telephone talks with Bahraini peer Syria-Bahrain, Politics, 2/21/2003
- Protest by relatives rioters in Bahrain
Some 50 persons demonstrated on Wednesday with the majority of them women of the families of the Bahraini youths who were sentenced over acts of riots in Bahrain for the new year celebration and gathered in front of the ministry of Justice in Manama in protest of these sentences. Bahrain, Local, 2/21/2003 - Bahraini delegations heads for Iraq to show support
A delegation representing Bahraini political, vocational and humanitarian organizations headed for Iraq yesterday on board of a ship carrying humanitarian aid in an initiative of protest against American war threats against Iraq. Bahrain-Iraq, Politics, 2/20/2003 - Bahraini court sentenced riot makers
A court in Bahrain has sentenced for a period of two years four persons after they were convicted of taking part in acts of riots took place in the New Year celebration in the downtown of the capital Manama. Bahrain, Local, 2/18/2003