Bahraini protesters face off against army tanks near the Pearl roundabout Friday, Şubat. 18, 2011, in Manama, Bahreyn. Many protesters began to pray and shouted “peaceful, peaceful”. Soldiers fired tear gas and shot heavy weapons into the air as thousands of protest marchers defied a government ban and streamed toward the landmark square that had been the symbolic center of the uprising against the Gulf nation’s leaders. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)