Juhayman ibn Muhammad ibn Sayf al-Utaybi leads over one-thousand of his radical Sunni (“Legacy of Mohammed”) disciples in an ill-fated takeover of the Great Mosque of Mecca (in Saudi Arabia)—Islam’s holiest shrine.
Postscript: al-Utaybi was executed by beheading seven weeks later.
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References:
Yousef Bodansky, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, (Centerport, New York: Forum, 1999), 6-7.
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