Yearbook 2003 Bahrain. According to Countryaah, Bahrain Independence Day is December 16. Bahrain’s King Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifa offered Iraq’s Saddam Hussein a sanctuary in Bahrain on March 19. The offer came after the US declared that a country escape would be the only way for Saddam Hussein to avoid war. Iraqi government officials rejected the proposal. 2,000 young people, many of them masked, took part in violent riots on…
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