The Bahraini police have been shooting civilians now. Not only that. They've been doing it out of AMBULANCES. Makes me sick. The word "genocide" is on the lips of quite a lot of Bahrainis now, particularly with a thousand Saudi troops occupying the country.
It's not long 'til the critical UN vote on a No Fly Zone, as well.
My suspicion is that if it succeeds it will be more than a NFZ in practice. The west won't be able to complete their remit of "protecting Libyan civilians" by just flying over on occasion. Gadaffi WILL shoot at them, they WILL have to take out his air defences. I suspect they'll also end up running strikes on his tank corps as well. It looks a bit grim, but I guess one thing to remember is that actually places like Ras Lanuf, Brega, Zawiya, etc, are really quite small. Zawiya is the largest place Gadaffi has retaken successfully (after several days of very bloody fighting), and it's smaller than my local city of Norwich. Brega, which took about two days to fall, is about the size of my local town of Diss. Benghazi has over a million people, on the other hand - taking it would be a vastly, vastly larger enterprise than anything Gadaffi's troops have managed so far.