elections or not? in bahrain, a u.s. ally and, where the u.s. naval fleet for the persian gulf is based, deadly protests there, with a shooting yesterday, and at least one person was killed and reports of shots fired at the funeral today, a key u.s. ally in the persian gulf in yemen and also a u.s. ally and al qaeda is trying to take a strong hold and usage anti-government protests against the president who has been compared to president mubarak here in egypt, those anti-government protests have continued against the u.s. ally leader. here in egypt, things are relatively calm. remember, it took only 18 days, for the anti-government forces to kick president mubarak out of office and now the army is in control, and it announced a constitutional committee in the next two months is supposed to come up with a constitution and try and form some type of system for a civilian government, after that, we will move to elections, and the muslim brotherhood today announced they may not put up a