bahrain protests

MANAMA: Bahrain's main opposition cluster supposed on Saturday that the government must quit and the army withdraw from the road of the capital before it will take up an offer of discussion from the crown prince.

"To consider discussion, the government must quit and the army should withdraw from the road of Manama, said parliamentary leader of the Islamic National Accord Association (Al-Wefaq Abdul Jalil Khalil Ibrahim), the major opposition block.

"What we're considering now is not the language of dialogue but the language of force," he said, referring to the government's onslaught on protesters Friday in which he said 95 people were wounded, three of them dead.

US President Barack Obama fated the aggression in a phone conversation with King Hamad, a key regional ally of Washington.

"The circumstances is difficult and I fear it has run out of control," warned Ibrahim, whose group -- which holds 18 of the 40 seats in parliament -- has pulled out in protest.