Day of Reckoning Draws Near for the Aal-e Khalifa Regime

By: S. Nawabzadeh

If execution of opponents on trumped up charges could save a repressive minority regime from its imminent extinction then Saddam, the mass murderer of members of Iraq’s majority, or members of his murderous Ba’th minority regime, would still have been in power in Baghdad. 

This fundamental fact is being ignored by the Aal-e Khalifa pirate regime of Bahrain, which the other day brutally snuffed the life out of three hapless inmates of the long suppressed majority – through a firing squad – jailed and tortured on absurd accusations.

Right now, Hamad bin Isa, who since 2002 has been styling himself king, while living on wealth borrowed from comrade-in-crimes, the oil-rich Wahhabi cultish regime of Saudi Arabia, is toasting the killing of the innocent trio, with glasses of wine in his palace in Manama, in the company of his uncle the terrorist prime minister (since 1971) Khalifa bin Salman, Heir Apparent Salman bin Hamad, and the torturer-in-chief, fourth son Nasser – organizer of the annual scandalous Grand Prix who during his brief stint in southern Yemen with the UAE occupation forces, committed a number of war crimes against the local people.  

He thinks that the US 5th fleet based in Manama and former colonial master Britain are the eternal protectors of his regime against the mass protests of the unarmed Bahrainis whose leaders, such as the unlawfully dismissed Chief of the Opposition in the parliament, Hojjat al-Islam Sheikh Ali Salman, are languishing in jail for demanding civil liberties and democratic rule.

Hamad, it is said, personally ordered the brutal gunning to death of the three blindfolded and tied-to-the pole prisoners, the day after the US reinstated the capital punishment.

He was encouraged by this piece of news from the US, and most likely received orders from his mentor in Washington, Donald Trump, to cold-bloodedly kill the youthful Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali, accused of being members of a ‘terrorist outfit’ (read: liberation movement). 

Last Friday, a day before the execution, Agnes Callamard, the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, had issued a last-minute push to halt their executions, but to no avail.

Her statement read: "I remind Bahrain that the only thing that distinguishes capital punishment from an arbitrary execution is full respect for the most stringent due process and fair trial guarantees.”

Fair trial, however, is an alien term for the Aal-e Khalifa and it doesn’t exist in the dictionary of a murderous minority clique that since the start of the mass peaceful protests in February 2011 has killed scores of protestors, jailed over a thousand in subhuman conditions including women, juveniles, and the elected representatives of the people to the parliament, and deprived hundreds of Bahrainis of their citizenship, in addition to desecrating mosques, destroying hussainiyas, trampling religious banners and books, and banning Friday Prayers. 

It thinks that such cruel measures and gross violation of human rights is necessary for its survival, for which Hamad and his henchmen had recently recruited al-Qa’eda terrorists to assassinate opposition leaders and activists in Bahrain and abroad. 

This state terrorism of the Zionist-loving betrayers of Palestine – originally pirates from the Khor Abdullah waterway between Basra and Kuwait had seized Bahrain from a weakened Iran in the closing years of the 18th century and sought British protection – has already firmed up the resolve of the opposition from a hitherto peaceful process for transition towards democratic rule to the overthrow of Hamad and his house.

Observers point out the possibility of armed struggle as the restless and radicalized young generation, having become disillusioned with the double standards of the West and its unexplained support for the regime, could in the coming days replace the Molotov cocktails with home-made bombs and perhaps drones – whose technology is readily available on the Internet – to plunge this Persian Gulf island state into a bloody battleground where the mercenaries of the Aal-e Khalifa as well as the Saudi troops which in 2011 had crushed the peaceful uprising, stand no chance of confrontation.

Hopefully, Hamad and his henchmen would come to their senses in view of the fact that while Britain is fast sinking under the clownish premier Boris Johnson, Donald the dotard is presiding over the finale to the grand collapse of the US. 

Therefore, instead of committing more crimes against Muslims and Islam that only increases their punishment in afterlife or losing their dear life in the event of an armed uprising – of course, through a firing squad but after a fair trial – the Aal-e Khalifa are advised to pack up their bags and leave for their mansions in Britain and the US, purchased with the looted wealth of the nation.