1.   But the machine guns are pointed at the impoverished Shiite villages on the opposite sides of the road.

2.   In Shiite villages, the revenge assaults have provoked outrage and bewilderment.

3.   A foreign worker died and two people were injured when eight masked arsonists set fire to a building in an impoverished Shiite village, according to reports Thursday.

4.   Amid fears violence would break out in response to the verdict, security was low-key but apparent in the Shiite villages south of Manama, the capital.

5.   Amid fears violence would break out in response to the verdict, security grew tight around Shiite villages south of Manama, the capital.

6.   Anticipating renewed unrest following the execution, riot police were sent to patrol the streets of several Shiite villages where the opposition is normally active.

7.   Earlier Friday, Israeli fighter jets and helicopter gunships hit Shiite villages just north of an Israeli-occupied border enclave in south Lebanon.

8.   Earlier Friday, Israeli fighter jets and gunships hit Shiite villages just north of the security zone.

9.   Five policemen were killed before the Sunni Muslim royal family initiated a dialogue with elders of the mainly Shiite villages where the trouble occurred.

10.   Following the clashes, police sealed off Karbabad, a mainly Shiite Muslim village and a traditional hotbed of unrest on the western edge of the capital Manama.