Hmmm .... wonder why the US Ambassador to Bahrain has become persona non grata ....

to certain sections of  the Bahraini government as well as to the Sunni supporters in the US govt.  Did the unfortunate man speak the truth about the mistreatment of the  Shiite Bahrainis by the Sunni government?

Al Kamen writing at WashingtonPost:
.....Most folks in this country  probably don’t know much about Bahrain. After all, it’s only about 293 square miles (a little over four times the size of  the District) and, with a population of about 1.3 million (more than half of them immigrants), is only slightly larger than Dallas.
But it is strategically located in the Persian Gulf just off the coast of Saudi Arabia and 150 miles across the gulf from Iran. The Navy’s Fifth Fleet is headquartered there and it lets the United States use two major airfields. Then there’s the $1.4 billion in military sales to the kingdom each year. On the other hand, there are the violent demonstrations by majority Shiites against the ruling Sunni monarchy for the last three years.
Balancing human rights concerns and the need for military cooperation with the government makes for a very tricky diplomatic task.

So when Abdullatif al-Mahmood, head of the National Unity Assembly (a  political group that’s part of a Sunni-oriented pro-government political federation) demands the “immediate” recall of U.S. Ambassador Tom Krajeski, Gulf Daily News reported Monday, attention perforce must be paid. And when the demand results from a quite negative State inspector general’s report last week, even more attention might be forthcoming.....