A Missing Link in Terror's Chain; A reporter pierces Saudi secrecy about a seminal event in the evolution of radical Islam. From: The Washington Post | Date: October 21, 2007 | Copyright 2007 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

THE SIEGE OF MECCA

The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine

And the Birth of Al Qaeda

By Yaroslav Trofimov

Doubleday. 301 pp. $26 The subtitle of Yaroslav Trofimov's fascinating and important book about the 1979 takeover of the Great Mosque in Mecca by heavily armed fanatics refers to that event as "the forgotten uprising." Perhaps it has been forgotten here but not in the Muslim Middle East, where it was a seminal event of the region's most traumatic year i...

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