Middle East Focus: Gulf Confusion: Hired Jordanian Torturers Ordered Expelled...........

Arabia Deserta

Gulf Confusion: Hired Jordanian Torturers Ordered Expelled...........

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“Senior Bahraini police officers suspended for torturing detainees are being swiftly reinstated in a sign of a growing struggle for power within the al-Khalifa royal family over the extent of the repression to be used against pro-democracy protesters. In addition, 90 Jordanian officers, serving in the Bahraini police force and alleged to have mistreated prisoners, are having their contracts terminated and are being sent back to Jordan, opposition sources have told The Independent. They say it is not clear if this is to purge the security forces of the worst offenders or to get rid of witnesses to the wholesale use of torture when the government crushed the Arab Awakening movement in Bahrain in March. Increasing divisions within the Sunni royal family are becoming more blatant as statements by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa aimed at conciliating the majority Shia community are not followed up by action. Though he told state and private companies to reinstate the 2,500 employees sacked for taking part in pro-democracy protests, many have been unable to get their old jobs back. The government's actions are also contradictory……..”

Jordanians have been involved in torture of detainees in the Persian-American Gulf states of the GCC for more than two decades. Bahrain's rulers have been using them at least since the 1990s, as has the United Arab Emirates. They are deemed less hesitant about torturing their victims than the natives, more ready to threaten rape, more ready to use rape. The same applies to Pakistani, Jordanian, and Syrian mercenaries in the security forces, who are deemed correctly by the despots as more willing to shoot and kill protesters. This is not to say that there are no natives who have sold their soul to the devil; there are, all over the Gulf (after all, they give the orders and sometimes participate). Both Bahrain and the UAE don't have enough native citizens to police and repress the whole population, so they hire and borrow torturers and killers and sanctioned rapists from "friendly" countries.

The regime knows these 'officers' of King Abdul were engaged in torture: that is why they were hired. They are expelling them (certainly with ample compensation) for cover-up purposes.
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