According to the Akhbar Al Khalij newspaper of Bahrain, the American Embassy there has provoked a storm of anti-American criticism for interfering in Bahrain's internal affairs, after U.S. diplomats sought a list of local imams who offer Friday prayers. According to part one of this angry two part op-ed article, Bahraini officials are far too willing to comply with Washington's demands.

By Mohammad Kazem

Translated By Nicolas Dagher

March 5, 2006
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Gentlemen: America is no longer the leader of the Free World, and its leaders are no longer great. The rules of the game have changed, and the biggest concern of American leaders today is how to steal from the rest of the world’s population, closely monitor those people that are 'free,' and how to ignite fires around the world in the name of fighting terrorism. After giving birth to terrorism, they never miss a chance to openly proclaim that all that they do is to protect America!!!

This is one of the bigger lies in their never-ending series of lies. Because of their [Washington's] stupidity, they have rubbed America’s nose in the mud, leaving U.S. citizens quivering in fear all the time, never feeling safe. Americans have become hated in all of the world’s societies because of their greed and stupidity. There is an evil team running the [U.S.] administration, especially since that gang of the neo-cons took control.

Their policies are based on two pillars:

-- On the international level, they harbor this crazy desire to achieve political and economical hegemony over the world’s people.

-- On the domestic level: To propagate the psychology of fear in their own citizens to justify measures to 'protect' them from terrorism.

We now know that this foolish policy has been catastrophic for the United States. In the end, those obsessed with power (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of Washington’s devils) will burn their country as Nero burned Rome.