Bahrain troops shoot at protesters: ex MP

Source: Reuters

MANAMA | Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:48am EST

(Reuters) - Bahraini troops shot at protesters near Pearl Square on Friday and wounded many, a former Shi'ite lawmaker said, a day after police forcibly cleared a protest camp from the traffic circle in Manama.

Jalal Firooz, of the Wefaq bloc that resigned from parliament on Thursday, said demonstrators had been elsewhere in the capital, marking the death of a protester killed earlier this week when riot police fired tear gas at them.

The demonstrators then made for Pearl Square, where army troops who took it over after the police raid on Thursday opened fire, he said. "There are many casualties, some are critical," Firooz added. Police had no immediate comment.

Lebanon's Hezbollah-run al-Manar television quoted a doctor at Salmaniya hospital in Manama as saying 25 wounded had been admitted, two of them with serious wounds.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/18/us-bahrain-shooting-idUSTRE71H3YI20110218

You just gave Iran another foothold in the ME.

The mullahs are probably walking on cloud nine today.