Gaddafi barely Holds Tripoli

Benghazi fell, and Tripoli can't be much farther behind. Supposedly Gaddafi still has control over the ancient capital of modern-day Libya as well as Surt, on the coast, and Sabha, a few hundred miles inland. Sabha is a staginging point for the mercernary forces that Gaddafi is using on the protesters.

It's bad in Libya. It's bad in Bahrain. What will the final picture be? How amazing is it that we get to watch in nearly real-time an entire portion of the world commence revolution?

In a country slightly larger than Alaska with just under six-and-a-half million people--largely living around the Mediterranean--it's hard to tell who controls what. The governments of their bordering countries, Tunisia and Egypt, have been overthrown; this emboldens the citizens to fight back.

I've heard anti air-craft weapons have been used on the protesters.

Yikes.