History Lesson : Attack and Seizure of Al-Masjid al-Haram in 1979

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_Seizure

The Grand Mosque Seizure on November 20, 1979, was an armed attack and takeover by armed Islamist dissidents of the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. The insurgents declared that the Mahdi, or redeemer of Islam, had arrived in the form of one of the insurgents' leaders, Abdullah Hamid Mohammed Al-Qahtani and called on Muslims to obey him.

The seizure shocked the Islamic world as hundreds of pilgrims present for the annual hajj were taken hostage, and hundreds of militants, security forces and hostages caught in crossfire were killed in the ensuing battles for control of the site. The siege ended two weeks after the takeover began with militants cleared from the mosque.

Following the attack, the Saudi state implemented stricter enforcement of Islamic code.

Read more on the link above....

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The theory about the Mahdi proposed in that YouTube series, The Revival, says the Mahdi will reveal himself during a bloody Hajj, not unlike this one, but also quite different (because the Saudis will try to stop the Mahdi).

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Lawrence Wright reports that only three Frenchmen were called in, members of the highly-trained GIGN counter-terrorism unit. Because non-Muslims are not allowed in the holy city, they converted to Islam in a brief formal ceremony overseen by Saudi religious leaders.[17] Saudi officials deny the French actually entered Mecca.

The French suggestion to flood the mosque and then drop a high-voltage cable into the pool to electrocute all present was dismissed,[18] and an attempt to subdue the resistance with non-lethal gas failed also. lol what