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Fighting at the grand mosque in mecca after militants seized control of the shrine, november 1979 afpgetty images. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, meccas bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming muslim rage against the united states and causing hundreds of deaths. With turki alfaisal, madawi alrasheed, tim barger, paul barril. The islamic fundamentalists that it had so often relied on presented a threat to its dynastic rule. Trofimov, a wall street journal writer and observer. In the siege of mecca, acclaimed journalist yaroslav trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilling, pivotal, and overlooked episode of modern history, examining its repercussions on the middle east and the. In 1979 islamic militants seized control of the grand mosque in mecca, the holiest site in islam. The siege of mecca by yaroslav trofimov largely forgotten uprising in islams holiest shrine article pdf available in grma news september 2008 with 2,624 reads how we measure reads. The siege of mecca in septembernovember 683 was one of the early battles of the second islamic civil war.
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