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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2007

Pages
  
320

Originally published
  
2007

Page count
  
320

Subject
  
Grand Mosque seizure

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
978-0-385-51925-0

Author
  
Yaroslav Trofimov

Publisher
  
Doubleday

OCLC
  
85162242


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Al-Qaeda books, Other books

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda is a 2007 book by Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov about the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca.

Hundreds of Islamic radicals led by Saudi preacher Juhayman al-Otaybi invaded the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Islam's holiest shrine, on Nov. 20, 1979. The intruders included men from all over the Muslim world and a handful of American converts. Tens of thousands of worshipers were trapped inside the compound. The battle for the shrine lasted two weeks, causing hundreds of deaths and ending only after the intervention of Saudi National Guard and Special Forces.

Yaroslav Trofimov's book provides the first detailed account of this siege. The book is based on interviews with surviving participants and eyewitnesses, including former terrorist supporters of Juhayman al-Otaybi, as well as hundreds of declassified U.S., British and French government documents.

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