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