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March 24, 2011

The Coming Shia War

Hossein Askari, The National Interest

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The Al-Khalifas have ruled Bahrain for nearly two centuries, much of the time as a British protectorate, and for the last forty or so years as an emirate and most recently as a kingdom.

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TAGGED: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Shia, Bahrain

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