Small-scale protests and clashes throughout Bahrain over the weekend seemed like they could turn into much larger clashes Monday as protesters prepared for a "day of rage" and police prepared to squash it. The Bahraini government has already tried to halt unrest by promising $2,650 to each family in the country, but that has not seemed to satisfy the country's Shiite majority, which is unhappy living under a Sunni government, Reuters reports. Some wonder if an uprising by Bahrain's Shiites could inspire the Shiites of neighboring Saudi Arabia.
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Nine countries in the Middle East where 'winds of change' are blowing
Those who said that 'winds of change' were blowing through the Middle East were right. As Egyptians' cries, first of anger and now of jubilation, beam into living rooms throughout the Middle East, here is a look at where those 'winds of change' are taking us.
Bahrain
