Bahrain's Game of Detainee Diplomacy With Washington (Simon Henderson, The Washington Institute)

The government in Manama, the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, blames Iran for supporting the Shiite opposition and downplays the threat of Sunni extremist support for the Islamic State

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