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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: Neil H who wrote (91636)3/28/2011 1:18:13 PM
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1717: Sultan Al Qassemi tweets: "BNA: Bahrain bars media from reporting details of investigations being carried out under national safety law bit.ly Arabic"

1655: More on what's going on in Bahrain: The Sunni royal family, which has ruled the majority Shia community since the 18th Century, has imposed martial law and called in troops from neighbouring Sunni Gulf states.

1652: Bahrain's leading Shia opposition group, al-Wifaq, has said 250 people have been detained and 44 others have gone missing since a security crackdown earlier this month crushed weeks of protests. The figures have more than doubled since last week. "Just today and yesterday [Monday and Sunday], we got calls from 35 families saying they lost contact with their relatives when they passed through a checkpoint," Wifaq spokesman Ibrahim Mattar told Reuters. "We don't know what's happened to them, authorities won't say. In these conditions, we actually have to hope they were arrested."
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