PAIN FUL
TIME
IN HOLY BELOVED
MASJID-UL-HARAM
IN YEAR 1979
In
the early morning of
November 20, 1979, the imam of the Grand Mosque, Sheikh Mohammed
al-Subayil, was preparing
to lead the prayers
for the fifty thousand worshipers who had gathered for the first prayer
of the Islamic year of 1400 hijri. He was interrupted by
insurgents who procured weapons from under their robes, chained the
gates shut and killed two policemen.
The seizure shocked the
Islamic world as hundreds of pilgrims present for the annual hajj
were taken hostage, and hundreds of militants, security forces and
hostages caught in crossfire were killed in the ensuing battles for
control of the site. The siege ended two weeks.
.
The insurgents released
most of the hostages and locked the remainder
in the sanctuary. They took defensive positions in the upper levels of
the masjid and sniper positions in the minarets, from which they
commanded the grounds. The insurgents broadcast their demands from the
mosque loudspeakers.
The seizure
was led by Juhaiman
ibn
Muhammad
ibn
Saif
al Utaibi, who
belonged to a powerful family
of Najd. He declared his
brother-in-law Abdullah Hamid Mohammed
Al-Qahtani to be the Mahdi, or redeemer of Islam.The insurgents declared that the Mahdi, or redeemer of Islam, had arrived
in the form of one of the insurgents' leaders, Abdullah Hamid Mohammed
Al-Qahtani and called on Muslims to obey him.
Leader Juhaiman
ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi
[please do not see
pic for long time. it is given only for academic knowledge and IBRAT]
[May Almigty ALLAH
subhan-o-talla for give me .ameen]
Soon
after
the
seizure,
about
a hundred security officers of the Interior Ministry
attempted to retake the mosque, and were decisively turned back with
heavy casualties. 255 pilgrims, troops and fanatics" killed "another
560 injured. The survivors were quickly joined by units of the
Saudi Army and National Guard.. By the
evening, the entire city of Mecca had been evacuated. Pakistani
and
French
security
forces retook the holy Msjid-UL-HRAM in a
battle with Saudi national Guard. The liar redeemer of Islam Abdullah Hamid Mohammed
Al-Qahtani was killed.
Abdullah
Hamid
Mohammed
Al-Qahtani
[please do not see pic for
long time. it is given only for academic knowledge and IBRAT]
[May Almigty ALLAH subhan-o-talla for give me .ameen]
The rebels' leader, Juhaiman
ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi was captured,
and he and 67 of his fellow
rebels—"all the surviving males"—were tried secretly, convicted and
publicly beheaded
in the squares of Saudi cities.
other
rebels with Juhaiman
ibn
Muhammad
ibn
Saif
al Utaibi.They were beheaded
in different places of saudi arabia.
[please do not see
pic for long time. it is given only for academic knowledge and IBRAT]
[May Almigty ALLAH subhan-o-talla for give me .ameen]
Another
picture of arrested rebels who were beheaded later on
[please do not see
pic for long time. it is given only for academic knowledge and IBRAT]
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