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Attack on Bahrain

By Coalition to End the U.S.-Saudi AllianceCaptured January 28, 2020

Bahrain

More than 1,000 Saudi and Gulf states troops marched into Bahrain in March of 2011. The Saudi government was worried about the protest movement spreading into its oil fields and eastern provinces and acted under the terms of a newly-signed treaty by the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman and Bahrain which pledges the leadership of these countries to act as one against their own citizens in the event of revolutionary upsurges. The Saudi intervention came just two days after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Manama.

Background on Bahrain: Bahrain, a Brutal Ally - Zainab al-Kawaja - Op-Ed New York Times

Saudi Tanks "Enter" Bahrain to Put Down "Unrest" - Ethan Bronner - NYT March 14, 2011

One suspects that when Soviet tanks "entered" Hungary in 1956

the New York Times had a harsher headline

Bahrain

Cartoon - Saudi tank, Bahraini King - by Carlos Latuff