The Siege of Mecca

The forgotten uprising in Islam's holiest shrine and the birth of Al Qaeda
Yaroslav Trofimov
$26.00
ISBN: 0385519257
Format: Hardcover
 
Pub Date: 09/18/2007
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On November 20, 1979, hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islams holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Trofimov interviews for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and draws on hundreds of once-classified documents.
 
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