finish eed because the sunni rol family's history based on exploiting the shiite population. >> nick, how would you describe the american population there other than the naval presence and what are they being told by our embassy? >> there's a very large american population here. this is a banking center. it is so different from the kind of place you expect to see this kind of really brutal crackdown taking place. this is a banking center. there are a lot of ex-pats here and a base for people who work in saudi arabia or elsewhere in the gulf to keep their families. bahrain is always an incredibly safe place. and people -- i'd say the american community is very nervous. scared. some people are leaving. are flying out. but i should also say that, you know, there's no indication that anybody is targeting the foreign community. this is really between a