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...Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region was on edge in the wake of a protest by Iranian pilgrims that turned into a bloodbath in the Saudi Arabian holy city of Mecca. The week's events reminded a twitchy U.S. of the very real risks that come with flying the flag in far-flung corners of the world...
...estimated 2.1 million pilgrims, known as hajjis, moved in a smooth procession yesterday in groups of 100,000 to the Plain of Arafat six miles from Mecca...
...culmination of the pilgrimage, each hajji "stones the devil," flinging seven pebbles at each of the three "devil pillars" on the plain. Pilgrims then return to Mecca, where they end the hajj...
Last Saturday, the day after the battle in Mecca, mobs ransacked the Kuwaiti and Saudi embassies in Tehran and captured four Saudi diplomats...
...Tehran, the interior minister accused Washington of responsibility for the Mecca bloodshed. He urged Moslems everywhere to undermine American and Saudi interests...