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    The Grand Mosque seizure was a siege that took place between 20 November and 4 December 1979 at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, the holiest Islamic site in...
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    National Guard. Religious insurgents who participated in the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca referred to themselves as the 'al-Ikhwan', although with...
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    who led the Ikhwan during their Grand Mosque seizure in 1979. He and his followers besieged and took over the Grand Mosque of Mecca on 20 November 1979 (1...
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    limited increased support for their armed forces in the wake of the Grand Mosque Seizure in 1979. In the 1980s Saudi Arabia became a major source of financial...
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    regained a degree of prominence following the Grand Mosque Seizure. Al Saeed expressed public support for the seizure, which he described as a “people’s revolution...
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  • Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov about the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca. Hundreds of Islamic radicals led by Saudi preacher Juhayman...
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  • protests over allegations that the United States was involved in the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The United States had already withdrawn the...
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    Khalid of Saudi Arabia (category Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit)
    civilians seized the Grand Mosque of Mecca and sought but failed to kidnap Khalid. Saudi forces regained control over the mosque, but the seizure resulted in the...
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    years after the Islamic overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the seizure of the Grand Mosque by extremists, a number of observers (Olivier Roy, Mustafa Akyol...
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  • claimed in a widespread Iranian radio broadcast that the then-ongoing Grand Mosque seizure in Saudi Arabia had been orchestrated by the United States and Israel...
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  • (692) by the Umayyads the Siege of Mecca (865) by Alid rebels the Grand Mosque Seizure by Islamists in 1979 The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov, a nonfiction...
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    police forces in combating drug trafficking and criminals. After the Grand Mosque seizure in 1979 and the ineffectiveness of the Saudi Arabian National Guard...
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  • years after the Islamic overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the seizure of the Grand Mosque by extremists, a number of observers (Olivier Roy, Mustafa Akyol...
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    the assault was conducted. Advising Saudi authorities during the Grand Mosque Seizure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in November and December 1979. Arrest of...
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    heritage by the Islamic State Destruction of Shia mosques during the 2011 Bahraini uprising Grand Mosque seizure Iconoclasm Islamist destruction of Timbuktu...
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    descendant, Juhayman al-Otaibi, would gain infamy in 1979 when he led the Grand Mosque Seizure. From 1927 to 1932, Ibn Saud administered the two main portions of...
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    Cambridge, MA-based Hybridon, Inc. Mahrous bin Laden, implicated in the Grand Mosque Seizure carried out by dissidents against the Saudi ruling family at the...
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    February 2011. Riyadh (10 January 1980). "63 Zealots beheaded for seizing Mosque". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved...
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  • 800-1200 dead among the villagers, 100-500 wounded and 800 arrested. Grand Mosque seizure Kashf-e hijab Abadan Crisis White Revolution Iranian Revolution List...
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    portal Mecca Masjid al-Haram Liebherr Group Saudi Binladin Group 1979 Grand Mosque seizure 2006 Mecca hostel collapse 2015 Mina stampede The total of all deaths...
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  • Muslim world in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and also the Grand Mosque seizure which occurred in late 1979 amidst the revival; both of these events...
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  • ISBN 978-0-385-51925-0). A "gripping" historical account of the Grand Mosque Seizure in Mecca in 1979 by the precursors of Al Qaeda. The book was a finalist...
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  • the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2017. "Our Man in the Mosque". s3.amazonaws.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved...
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  • Uganda–Tanzania War NDF Rebellion Chadian–Libyan War Yemenite War of 1979 Grand Mosque seizure Iranian Revolution Saur Revolution Sino-Vietnamese War New Jewel...
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    clerics that the deal the royal family struck with them after the Grand Mosque seizure was to be renegotiated. Building an industrial culture was seen as...
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    Armored Brigade. 1979 Grand Mosque seizure. The Saudi army and SANG, together with Pakistani and French commandoes, reclaimed the mosque from extremist insurgents...
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    Revolution Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution 1979 Qatif Uprising Grand Mosque seizure 1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq 1980s Iran–Iraq War 1980 Turkish...
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    Texas Morrisite War, 1862, government siege of a religious group. Grand Mosque Seizure, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, 1979 Operation Blue Star, Golden Temple, Amritsar...
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    statements and actions, such as putting up Marxist and Leninist slogans on mosque walls. According to Shlaim, their growing power was accompanied by growing...
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