TEHRAN TIMES: MANAMA – There are reports that Saudi Arabian troops have entered Bahrain to help put down the worst unrest in the country since the 1990s, BBC Arabic said on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, thousands of anti-Khalifa-regime protesters cut off Bahrain’s financial center and drove back police trying to push them from the capital’s central square -- shaking the tiny island kingdom with the most disruptive demonstrations since the calls for more freedom began a month ago.
Demonstrators also took on King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa’s security forces and his supporters on the campus of the country’s main university.
Riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the demonstrators and surrounded the protesters’ main camp in Manama, AP reported.
However, the authorities failed to dislodge the thousands of protesters blocking King Faisal Highway in Manama, who were demanding a greater political voice in the strategic Persian Gulf kingdom, the home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. >>> Staff and agencies | Monday, March 14, 2011
