Some facts to take into account:
Last January the Admiral asked his aides to draw up a report showing how much money they would save by sending all the dependants home and moving all their personell into single accomodation (Family rent allowance BD 1000, Single rent allowance BD 350).
The yanks then told the Bahraini government that they had some "credible" intelligence that these six "terrorists" were bad lads who had been for training. The Bahraini's duly arrested them, their families kicked up a stink and the King ordered them to be released.
The Yanks are now extremely pissed of with the Bahraini King as they do not think he is taking seriously the threat of terrorism in Bahrain, and have pulled forward their already existing plan to get dependants out and therefore remove a serious amount of money from the Bahrain economy.
And thats the fact as relayed to me by a very senior officer in Mickey' boat club.
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