protests had been taking place over the past months. huge plumes of black smoke starting early in the morning, anti-riot police firing into crowdes and trying to disperse onlookers. security forces say people are making sure doctors couldn t get out and patients couldn t get in. the government denied all that. they said those were all lies and they insist that the protesters are, in fact, saab temperatures trying to bring down the government. people are really concerned that this could lead to asome point to civil war. mohammed, you are in abu dhabi now, but you were in bahrain. you were sxemd. is your feeling that there is a government crackdown on international media? we re hearing more and more reports from people on the ground, the journalists, both bahrainy and foreign are being asked not to report. there are even rumors that there
closure if i keep sitting here. well, unfortunately, we learned that this man s wife passed away. her body was found shortly after he spoke there to television crews, and, brooke, i m sure you ve seen these message boards in the shelters. so organized. and it just reminds me a little bit of 9/11 where people didn t know where their loved ones were. i m here, i m okay. so they were putting the names at that time of their loved ones hoping to hear from them, and then we re hearing that many japanese in similar situations, where they don t know if their loved ones or relatives have survived and doing the same and hoping to have that name crossed out, hoping that person was found. hoping he finds his closure and chilling to listen to that interview and the other story percolating again. talked about bahrain several weeks ago and now it s back, the home of the u.s. navy s fifth fleet. what s happening now? a lot is happening in bahrain. two protesters were killed in clashes. w
u.s. ambassador to morocco works says he s met with libya s intelligence leaders. he s imported security support from sudan as well as from pakistan, and his intelligence advisers have received significant intelligence support from former kgb officials from the eastern bloc countries of romania and bulgaria as well as from belarus. reporter: we contacted the libyan embassy here in washington to respond to that. the ambassador would not comment. now on the acounts of foreign enforcers in bahr ranges, i spoke with a senior bahrainy official with knowledge of that situation. he said they don t hire iraqis. he says the king has in recent years weeded out most of the foreigners from the police force. he says he can t guarantee that there s still not some in there, but he says if there are pakistanis and others among them beating protesters, this is his quote, it has to be investigated. candy. but you re hearing that should things get worse in bahrain, they may bring in other
external forces. one analyst told me if the bahrainy royal family is severely threatened by this unrest, they may ask the saudi government to send in the saudi national guard to help them quell the protesters. i asked the senior bahrainy official about that. he said we hope it never comes to that, and i said well, what if it does? he said we hope it never comes to that. he didn t really deny. kind of answers they are getting these days. thanks so much. thanks, brian. the violent political upheaval surging across the middle east could have serious implications for u.s. security and military interests in the region. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is here with more. chris? yeah, candy, you know, each of these protest verse their grievances are unique to their own particular country, but taken together these countries form sort of an informal network that the u.s. uses to protect shipping lanes, to increase security and to go after terrorists. waves of protests have topp
fifth fleet it is home to some 4,000 u.s. military personnel. they are all now in effective lockdown in a country that is racked by violence. second, there is concern in the united states, among officials here, that all of that violence is being perpetrated unjustifiably on the orders of bahrainy officials. listen to secretary of state hillary clinton. we call on restraint from the government to keep its commitment to hold accountable those who have utilized excessive force against peaceful demonstrators and we urge a return to a process that will result in real meaningful changes for the people there. and we are now in the early hours of friday morning across the middle east, the muslim day of prayer. what has become the traditional day of protests. so a lot of fears of more violence in bahrain, libya, yemen, and other countries, shep. shepard: whenever you hear any of those country s names and