Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia--Iranians joined 2 million other Moslems in a pilgrimage procession outside the holy city of Mecca, watched by armed Saudi police flanking the columns and helicopters hovering above...
...Saudi newspaper Okaz, quoting officials it did not name, said yesterday that Iran sent about 20,000 fanatical Revolutionary Guards and Volunteers to Saudi Arabia as pilgrims...
Saudi television showed a year-old film of Iranian pilgrims with weapons and explosives allegedly captured in their possession. Iranian pilgrims, described as operatives and activists, said in Farsi through interpreters that they tried to smuggle guns and explosives into Saudi Arabia during last year's hajj...
...Saudi Arabia's rulers follow Abdul-Wahhab, who founded an austere Sunni sect more than 200 years...
...befriended a band of Grenadian exiles plotting to overthrow the leftist regime of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Seeking help in planning a coup, Kattke called on retired Army Colonel George Morton, an employee of the Vinnell Corp. in Washington, which for years has supplied military special training to Saudi Arabia. According to Kattke, Morton turned him over to Gadd, who was then working for Vinnell. But Kattke's coup plans were aborted when the Prime Minister was killed by his rivals in the government. When North began planning his own operation to support a possible U.S. invasion to oust Bishop...