I love the headband worn by the guy in the bottom center of that photo: Independence 05. (Too bad we couldn't have Bush in '08, sigh.)
From a Jazeera article:
"In an interview with Aljazeera, Pierre Jumail, an opposition representative, said protesters would go to the parliament to question the government's security responsibility."
Looks like the govt. wanted to avoid a Georgian Parliament-like incident. That got big play in the Arab press, at least the English language side. Here it was a one or two day story.