Mideast Bahrain US Military

U.S. and Bahraini government officials including U.S. Vice Adm. William Gortney, 2nd left, Manama Governor Sheikh Hamoud Al Khalifa, third left, and U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli, fourth left, break ground Wednesday, May 26, 2010, at the Manama, Bahrain, site of a $580 million project to develop 70 acres of Persian Gulf waterfront near the U.S. Navy base on the island for American and coalition ships and personnel. The project, scheduled to be completed in 2015, is to include port operations, a harbor patrol facility, personnel barracks, administrative buildings and a dining facility. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)