News from our “allies” in Bahrain:

Large Protest in Bahrain After Boy’s Death
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Published: September 1, 2011

Large crowds marched through a restive village near the capital of Bahrain on Thursday for the funeral of a 14-year-old boy killed during a protest against the government.

Photographs of the boy’s face — smiling before his death and caked in blood shortly after — covered the coffin as it was lofted into the air in Sitra, an oil village six miles south of the capital, Manama, and a hub of opposition sentiment. Many in the crowd waved the red and white flag of Bahrain as they followed the body to its burial site…