Bahrain Analysis: "Washington's Knight" --- The Crown Prince Gets US Weapons

Crown Prince Salman and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

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This was not the King receiving the US gesture of the arms sale; this was not the Minister of Defence, who had publicly declared that the Obama Administration is trying to undermine the regime.

This was the Crown Prince, the man repeatedly framed as the "moderate" among hard-liners, being anointed with the weapons. This is Washington's knight to bring stability and "reform", whatever that word means.

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