Word: jarabub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already subsidizing pilgrimages of the faithful from India to Mecca (TIME, Nov. 18), has given a tidy ?100,000 ($400,000) for a mosque, promised them a site in London for it. In Libya when a force of Australians holed up a body of Italians at the oasis of Jarabub, the R. A. F. knew better than to bomb it. Jarabub has several holy Moslem buildings and the British did not intend to injure the monuments of Islam...
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