An official Saudi source said Monday a force Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, where unrest continues and sectarian tension, while the opposition considered that any interference by any foreign forces in the country is an "occupation" and appealed to the United Nations To act to protect civilians.
In turn, the United Arab Emirates announced it had sent about 500 police officers to Bahrain.
And paralyzed life in the Bahraini capital almost completely on Monday with a commitment to a wide general strike called by trade unions, while the activists opposed to the government to shut down most of the roads leading to the center of Manama, according to the correspondent of Agence France Presse.
The source said the Saudi official told AFP that "more than a thousand Saudi military forces from the Peninsula Shield Gulf and arrived on Sunday evening to" the Kingdom.
The source said that under the agreements within the Gulf Cooperation Council, the "no power to enter the Gulf State of the Council leadership passed to the state itself."
The source noted that "he was called repeatedly for dialogue by the Bahraini government has not been responding to the call."
Later, the Saudi Council of Ministers confirmed that he responded with, "Bahrain's request of support" in the face of the threat of security, without referring directly to the military intervention.
Following the meeting chaired by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Information Abdel Aziz Khoja said the cabinet reiterated that the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council "will firmly and determination of each of tempted to do fomenting sectarian strife or discord between the sons of the Council and the State or threaten its security and interests" .
He said the Council of Ministers that "any damage to the security of the country of the (GCC is damaging the security of all states .. In this context, the Council of Ministers stressed the responsiveness of Bahrain with a request for support in this regard."
Bahrain's official television broadcast scenes of Monday to enter the "vanguard" of the Peninsula Shield forces to the Gulf Kingdom Monday cross the border from neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The Peninsula Shield forces are a common Gulf Cooperation Council was founded in 1984.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday in Paris that his country has sent about 500 police officers to Bahrain to help the UK authorities to restore order.
It was Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the UAE announced that the United Arab Emirates has decided to send a security force to Bahrain "to contribute to maintaining security and order" in the Kingdom.
Gargash said as quoted by the official Emirates News Agency "in response to application of the Kingdom of Bahrain to help and contribute in establishing security and internal stability, the (United Arab Emirates) to send security force to help maintain security and order of the Kingdom of Bahrain."
For its part, the Bahraini opposition said it considers any outside military intervention "blatant occupation" and warned of "war" against civilians.
Also called on the opposition, which falls under the banner of the seven associations, mainly political Harmony Society, which represents the biggest Shiite power in the country, the international community and the Security Council to "protect civilians" in Bahrain, "the risk of outside military intervention."
She drew the seven associations call for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a joint statement declared that "the people of Bahrain are in real danger threatened by war against an army armed with Bahraini nationals to declare a state of war", in reference to Gulf forces.
The association added, "We consider the entry of any soldier or military vehicles to the territory of the Kingdom of Bahrain's land, air and maritime occupation, traveled to the Kingdom of Bahrain and conspired on the unarmed people of Bahrain and violates international agreements and conventions on war and peace."
The association called for "the international community to assume responsibility for international peace and security and so quickly to protect the people of Bahrain, the risk of outside military intervention and take action to protect civilians at the invitation of the Security Council to the subject matter of urgency."
The White House on Monday called on member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council to "respect the rights of" the people of Bahrain after sending troops to the Saudi kingdom, which has been in turmoil.
A spokesman for the American Presidency Tommy Vietor told AFP: "We urge our partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council to exercise restraint and respect for the rights of Bahraini and moving supports in the form of dialogue rather than disabled."
It comes a day after Gulf troop dispatch to confirm the Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, ready to raise the issue of expanding the powers of the House of Representatives and the government represents the will of the people, the demands of the opposition, also renewed the call for national dialogue to begin as soon as possible.
On Thursday, ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council and their standing firmly on the side of government in Bahrain, also launched a fund for the developmentally this country worth ten billion dollars. The Council considered that any cooperation with the security of Bahrain was a violation of the security Council as a whole.
And life was almost stopped in Bahrain on Monday, closing schools and businesses and factories at the invitation of the general strike, while there is a security and sectarian tension in the Kingdom after strong clashes between demonstrators and authorities in the Pearl roundabout in central Manama, close to Bahrain Financial Harbour. The confrontations that killed seven people and wounding dozens in the beginning of the move. And hundreds injured due to police throwing tear gas at protesters during the past three weeks.
And continues to sit claimants change and anti-government in each of the Pearl Roundabout, near the Bahrain Financial Harbour, a day after a night of unrest in the villages of Bahrain were attacked by "thugs" population, according to several sources. And seemed very light traffic reporter, according to Agence France-Presse.
The Federation of Trade Unions of Bahrain has called for open-ended strike on Sunday after a confrontation strong between security forces and protesters in the port of Bahrain and Financial In Circle Pearl near the center of Manama where the marching of thousands of weeks ago to demand the fall of the government and the democratic change, leaving dozens injured.
The MP said the resignation of the mass of the black Harmony Society, which represents the main Shi'ite power in the country that "there is a significant commitment to strike," adding that the concerned authorities did not lift the garbage from the roads and schools did not open its doors. He pointed to the heavy security presence near the Financial Harbour.
Also stopped the University of Bahrain on Monday for teaching the day after violent clashes which have left dozens of students were injured. The activists accused the "thugs" attacked the students staging a sit-government opponents with sticks and iron rods.
He said Black also said that the "Acts of violence occurred during the night by thugs in the villages of Bahrain," referring to Shiite villages, also referred to "the destruction of the Centre Association has promised" (Democratic Action - left) in the tics and burned its contents "in the tics. And opposition activist accused in connection with the Agence France Presse: "military thugs in civilian clothes" to "assault on the citizens," especially in religiously mixed areas.
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