In the wake of the bloodshed, angry Wedding Gowns demonstrators chanted "the regime must go," and burned pictures of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa outside the emergency ward at Salmaniya Medical Complex, the main hospital in Manama. "We are even angrier now. They think they can clamp down on us, but they have made us angrier," Makki Abu Taki, whose son was killed in the assault, shouted in the hospital morgue. "We will take to the streets in larger numbers and honour our martyrs. The time for Al Khalifa has ended." Another Al Jazeera online Wedding Dresses producer said that booms could be heard from different parts of the city, suggesting that "tear-gas is being used to disperse the protesters in several neighbourhoods". After several days of holding back, Bahrain's Sunni Arab rulers unleashed a heavy crackdown, trying to stamp out the first anti-government upheaval to reach the Arab states of the Gulf since the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Bahrain's rulers and their Arab allies depict any sign of unrest among their Shia populations as a move by neighbouring Shia-majority Iran to expand its clout in the region. The army would take every measure necessary to preserve security, the interior ministry said. But the assault may only further enrage protesters, who before the attack had called for large rallies on Friday. Pre-dawn raid In the assault at the Pearl roundabout, police tore down the protesters' tents, beating men and women inside and blasting some with shotgun sprays of bird-shot. The interior ministry ministry claims that protesters were carrying swords, knives and other bladed instruments. The pre-dawn raid was a sign of how deeply the island's Sunni monarchy fears the repercussions of a prolonged wave of protests, led by members of the country's Shia majority but also joined by growing numbers of discontented Sunnis. Tiny Bahrain is a pillar of US's military framework in the region. It hosts the US Navy's 5th Fleet, which the US sees as a critical counterbalance to Iran. An Al Jazeera correspondent, who cannot be named for security reasons, said that hospitals are full of injured people after Wednesday night's police raid on the pro-reform demonstrators. "Some of them are severely injured with gunshots. Prom Dresses Patients include doctors and emergency personnel who were overrun by the police while trying to attend to the wounded."
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