Thursday morning, two major opposition leaders and several others were jailed in Bahrain. “The whole idea that there was going to be a dialogue between the government and those seeking reform seems to have gone by the wayside,” says The New York Times’ Ethan Bronner, who is covering the story from Manama.
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