The Siege of Mecca : The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2005) Here she is first and

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The Siege of Mecca : The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2005) Here she is first and20 November, 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that lasted two weeks, caused hundreds of deaths, prompted an international diplomatic crisis and unleashed forces that would eventually lead to the rise of al Qaeda. Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov takes us day by