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Monday, November 20, 2017

"Siege of Mecca" -- on this date in History - Nov. 20, 1979 -- BBC Witness important programme

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes

aired on the BBC World Service (Radio)

in 1979 conservative fundamentalists seized control of the holiest site in Mecca, the Grand Mosque. Hundreds of worshippers were killed as Saudi security forces fought for two weeks to reclaim control of the site, severely damaging it and its passages. BBC interviewer & Reporter Eli Melki spoke to worshippers who were on the scene inside the Mosque during the siege.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvttk

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