Word: buraydah
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...this time, however. "We were very anxious about what would happen," said a doctor at a Buraydah hospital. "But it's been unusually quiet. All we've had are prayers in mosques for Iraqis. Nothing militant...
...Baghdad was already rid of Saddam Hussein, and images of Iraqis celebrating had been beamed into Saudi homes. But in Buraydah, the war was being recast as a bloody confrontation between the region's three great religious civilizations. Still, there was no radical call to arms...
...attended afternoon prayers at Buraydah's main mosque, a new and elegant structure aglow with dozens of steel-and-glass chandeliers. The imam led the congregation in 'qunoot' prayers, a special invocation inserted into the regular 'namaaz' and until recently banned by the government...
...Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Islam, Buraydah, a nondescript town about 200 miles northwest of Riyadh, is the nursery of the faith's radical vanguard...
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