Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mecca clashes were widely viewed in the region as a manifestation of Arab-Persian jealousies and the divisions of Islam...
...anti-American demonstration by Iranian pilgrims in Mecca last Friday led to clashes with Saudi riot police in which at least 402 people were killed, 275 of them Iranians. Hundreds were injured...
...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...