Biggest city after tripoli, it's ban place of protest and unrest before. now, this appears to have been sparked by the arrest of a human rights lawyer but there are other issues as we said. youth, average age 24 there. unemployment, food shortages. libya has put down these sorts of protests before but that was a different time. what's interesting here is these protests aren't targeting directly colonel gadhafi yet. now, that would be something of a red line. if that red line is crossed it takes it into a whole other area, i think. anyway, he has been in power for 42 years. he is the arab world...