Saudi sends troops, Bahrain Shi’ites call it ‘war’

  MANAMA, March 15 — Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain yesterday to help calm weeks of protests by the Shi’ite Muslim majority, a move that opponents of the Sunni ruling family on the island called a declaration of war. Analysts saw the troop movement into Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, as a mark of concern in Saudi Arabia that ...