As protests continue in the tiny gulf state of Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet, the Americans and Saudi Arabia are monitoring events there very closely.
The country, with an indigenous Shia-majority population, is ruled by a Sunni royal family, the al-Khalifas.
As events in Egypt gathered pace, human rights activists in Bahrain called for a day of rage on 14 February.
The result on Monday was sporadic protests in Shia villages across the island and attempts to create a "Tahrir Square movement" in central Manama, the capital.
