Chaotic clashes across Bahrain shake tiny kingdom

MANAMA, Bahrain -; Thousands of anti-government demonstrators cut off Bahrain's financial centre and drove back police trying to push them from the capital's central square -- shaking the tiny island kingdom Sunday with the most disruptive protests since calls for more freedom erupted a month ago.

Demonstrators also clashed with security forces and government supporters on the campus of the main university in the Gulf country, the home of the U.S.

Navy's Fifth Fleet. The clashes fueled fears that Bahrain's political crisis could be stumbling toward open sectarian conflict between the ruling minority Sunnis and Shiites, who account for 70 per cent of the nation's 525,000 people.

via story.middleeaststar.com