Live-from-Bahrain Twitter list -- tweets from eyewitnesses

[highplainsdem]

Just saw this on Twitter, after @ArabRevolution tweeted about it:

http://twitter.com/thomasmeadia/live-from-bahrain


Some of the more recent tweets:


FatiAmeer Fatima Alarab
Dr Sadiq AlEkri were shot in his chest cz he opened his clinic to the injured #CNN #BBCWorld #fb #bahrain #aljazeera
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


angryarabiya angry arabiya
alot of the ppl im seeing having breathing problems because of the tear gas, im going to the blood bank to to donate for one of the injured
13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


FatiAmeer Fatima Alarab
Paramedics: "we removed injured while they were being beaten by riot police who said they had orders to do so" #bahrain #fb #CNN #BBCWorld
17 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


MazenMahdi Mazen Mahdi
Two not one paramedic were attacked by police earlier near lulu #Bahrain #feb14 after being pulled out from the ambulance
26 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[clyrc]

1. Best of luck to the people of Bahrain

And I hope this doesn't make the government of the country I live in, the UAE, too jumpy.

[highplainsdem]

2. kick

[Zephie]

3. K&R, fantastic! I'll be following them asap.

[highplainsdem]

4. Some new tweets from Nicholas Kristof, one of the people this list is following:

Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times columnist.

Read from the bottom up to get these in chronological order.


NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Example of #Bahrain govt propaganda: @alibinkhalifa of royal family tweeted that I am "supporting outlaws with weapons."
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
A video of police attack on #Bahrain protesters last night (via @DavidClinchNews) http://bit.ly/gHcfn4
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
@
@eyade Yes, I'm documenting #Bahrain crackdown with video, photos, sound. I'm on the move to get these out before govt confiscates them.
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
As a reporter, some things just break your heart. Like watching the govt of moderate, tolerant #Bahrain kill its people.
1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
In morgue, I spoke to brother of 22 year old killed by police shotgun blast. He says King Hamad must step down.
3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Crowd growing at main #Bahrain hospital, chanting slogans against royal family. Will govt attack them here?
3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Witnesses say #Bahrain police cursed Shia as they attacked peaceful demonstrators. I haven't found 1 Sunni victim.
3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
1 #Bahrain ambulance driver told me #Saudi army officer held gun to his head, said wld kill him if helped injured.
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Hospital blood supplies holding up because volunteer doors pouring in.
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
#Bahrain govt has ordered ambulances to stop going out, hospital says.
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Abt 10 ambulance paramedics attacked by #Bahrain police. I interviewed them, saw their injuries.
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Nurse told me she saw handcuffed prisoner beaten by police, then executed with gun.
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
At hospital in #Bahrain. 600 brought here w/ injuries as of 8 am, more since. Beatings, shotgun pellets, rubber bullets.
4 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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AJELive
AJELive AJELive
by NickKristof
@AJEnglish deaths from latest clashes have risen to five #Bahrain. Parademic says most patients at hospital have head injuries
6 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Many in #Bahrain outraged that the king used mercenaries--Pakistani, Indian, Syrian riot police--to attack Bahrainis.
6 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
But those of us journalists already in #Bahrain WILL bear witness!
6 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
#Bahrain barring journalists from entry at airport. King Hamad doesn't want witnesses to his brutality.
6 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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iNews
Bh_activist iNews
by NickKristof
Journalist Nazeeha Saeed : I have seen a protester being shot to the head in front of me. #bahrain #feb14
8 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Ali Al Saeed
alialsaeed Ali Al Saeed
by NickKristof
seen the image of the martyr who was EXECUTED with a shot direct to the head. it shocked me to the core. #lulu #Bahrain #Feb14
7 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Mohammed AlMaskati
emoodz Mohammed AlMaskati
by NickKristof
This regime is using its military against it's own people, does the world hear our cries? #bahrain #feb14 #lulu
10 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
King Hamad of #Bahrain will never regain credibility after attacking peaceful protesters as they slept. Blood is forever on his hands.
11 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
King Hamad of #Bahrain claimed he regretted violence, then unleashed it on sleeping protesters. He disgraced himself.
11 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
#Bahrain Govt attacks thousands of peaceful protesters with lethal violence, clears Pearl Roundabout. Simple brutality.
11 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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Nicholas Kristof
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Huge huge huge pro-democracy crowd here at Pearl Roundabout in #Bahrain. Reminds me so much of Tahrir 3 weeks ago.
11 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[highplainsdem]

5. So far I've seen two photos of the martyred protester who was killed with a shot to the head.

His name is Isa Abdulhasan; he was 52 years old. He was shot by police.

The photos are described in tweets as graphic and disturbing. That's an understatement. (Please, even if you look at the photos yourself (there are at least two photos of his body), don't post the photos here, in this thread.)

What was done to him will continue to fuel the protests, and it should fuel the world's outrage.

The tweets on that list have links to videos, too.

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6. Link to Al Jazeera's live blog on Bahrain. They're also reporting something I saw tweeted

on this list -- that refrigerated trucks are being used by the army to take bodies away. The tweets on the list said the bodies are being taken to Saudi Arabia, but that hasn't been confirmed yet. The government is obviously trying to conceal the death toll (and probably trying to keep details about the deaths, and any more photos, from getting out).

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/16/live-blog-bahrain