Volume 27, Number 3 · March 6, 1980
Who Held the Grand Mosque Hostage?
By Arnold Hottinger
The Saudi Arabian authorities some time ago released official figures on lives lost in November's startling insurgent occupation of Mecca's Grand Mosque: 60 dead among goverment troops, 75 rebels killed. According to official reports, some 175 guerrillas were arrested after protracted fighting, most of them wounded. (As of this writing there were reports that the captured rebels were due to be executed in groups).
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