americans out of libya. shepard: i wonder what the mood, and i hate to asked mood, but i wonder, what is their real level of concern? and maybe their game plan to allow this to spread and end up if bahrain and spilling over to saudi arabia and a problem that is, quite frankly, impossible to fathom? reporter: you have all the agencies here in washington, whether the c.i.a., the state department, the pentagon, all of their as saids right now are focused on admiral mullen is traveling in the middle east meeting in paw rain, oman, and doing diplomacy in the middle east because there is so much concern about the domino effect. as it has been describeed to me he said this is the biggest change since the end of the
the opposition leader says he will return to bahrain tomorrow. shepard: apologize for the communication. it is hard to understand much. regarding the protests that we will watch in bahrain and beyond, only 900,000 people there but paw rain is across a bridge from saudi arabia, and the saudis built the bridge as a military bridge. they think now and always have been if there is an enormous uprising in bahrain, the saudi military can come across that bridge and take control of the situation as they have detailed plans to do we are led to believe. the question is: how much will iran exert their influence? could this be an enormous employee to the united states in what appears to be a quasiproxy war against then. the uprising was praised by some and failing to recognize their