(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Spokesman of Bahrain's February 14 Revolution Abdul Raouf al-Shayeb said that the US holds a hostile stance on the Bahraini revolution and has given the Al Khalifa regime the green light for using different tactics and criminal acts to confront people and allowed Saudi Arabia to dispatch its forces to help Manama suppress protesters.
He pointed to the US support for anti-government armed groups in Syria, and added, "Washington is exercising a double-standard attitude towards Arab revolutions, on one hand it condemns the popular revolution in Bahrain and on the other hand it supports the Syrian opposition and supplies arms to them and also asks Saudi Arabia to help the Al Khalifa massacre and suppress the people by dispatching its forces."
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February, calling for an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty's over-40-year rule.
Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states - Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar - were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13 to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.
So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and more than 1,000 others have been injured.
Last week, , another Bahraini opposition figure said that the security forces of the Al Khalifa regime and Saudi Arabia have been suppressing people brutally only after they received the US green light and support.
Speaking to FNA, Karim al-Mahrous pointed to the cause of the Bahraini and Saudi security forces' brutality against peaceful protests in the tiny Persian Gulf island, and stated that the "the regime's savagery against the country's people is only because of the direct support it receives from in the United States".
"The US consents to this attitude and behavior and this gives the regime the courage to massacre the people in such a (brutal) way," Mahrous said, adding that in addition to direct support, the US has provided the regime with different types of tools and weapons needed for the suppression of the people.
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