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	JIDDA - LoveToKnow Article on JIDDA
		There are three gates, the Medina gate on the north, the Mecca gate on the east, and the Yemen gate (rarely opened) on the south; there are also three small posterns on the west side, the centre one leading to the quay.
		Jidda is said to have been founded by Persian merchants in the caliphate of Othman, but its great commercial prosperity dates from the beginning of the 15th century when it became the centre of trade between Egypt and India.
		The introduction of steamers deprived Jidda of its place as an emporium, not only for Indian goods but for the products of the Red Sea, which formerly were collected here, but are now largely exported direct by steamer from Hodeda, Suakin, Jibuti and Aden.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JI/JIDDA.htm (724 words)

	Jidda on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jidda is the port of Mecca (c.45 mi/72 km to the east) and annually receives a huge influx of pilgrims, mainly from Africa, Indonesia, and Pakistan.
		Jidda was ruled by the Turks until 1916, when it became part of the independent Hejaz.
		Present Jidda is not more than three centuries old, but Old Jidda, c.12 mi (19 km) south of the modern city, was founded c.646 by the caliph Uthman.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/Jidda.asp (438 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Areas of fossil wood occur on limestone surfaces of the Jidda', and escarpments are locally highly fossiliferous.
		The Jidda' is the only place in the Middle East where the houbara bustard receives total protection throughout the year.
		The last wild oryx were captured and killed on the Jidda' in 1972 and wildlife was greatly reduced throughout the region.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/oryx_san.html (2139 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Living in Jidda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		...This village (Shorbatly is the name of a Jidda merchant) has its own power station at the southeast corner which burns oil day and night through four chimneys with the sound of a giant blowtorch...
		...Jidda, now grown mighty in its own right, was originally important only as the port of Mecca and as the burial place of Eve...
		...Take a map of old Jidda-the Jidda known to the ancients and pretty much unchanged right down to the time of T. Lawrence-and superimpose it on the new, and you'll see that it was barely a twentieth of what it is now...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V70I1P44-1.htm (5578 words)

	Saudis confront soaring crime - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's deeply conservative Islamic society is coming to terms with a crime wave ushered in by a population boom, rapid social change, increased unemployment and a reduction in oil revenue.
		The mass-circulation Okaz Arabic-language daily subsequently ran a frank three-part series on Kerantina, a slum to the south of Jidda, from which undercover journalists reported that prostitution, drug abuse and alcohol smuggling are rife.
		At least three districts of Riyadh — Batha, Olaya and Badia — are safe havens for alcohol and drug smugglers, as is the Kerantina district of Jidda, the main city in the al-Jouf region on the Iraqi border, Sakaka, and Jizan, near the Saudi-Yemeni border in the south.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20031222-123922-7479r.htm (743 words)

	In Saudi Arabia, Ruling Class to Working Class [Free Republic]
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — To coax skittish young Saudis into working on an assembly line churning out 300,000 packages of cookies a day, the managers at the National Biscuits and Confectionery Company have learned to maintain a certain degree of flexibility — and patience.
		Jidda, the city that styles itself as the bride of the Red Sea, harbors an extremely dirty secret.
		The fact that three-quarters of Jidda, a cosmopolitan port of some three million people, lacks a sewage system is merely the most pungent of Saudi Arabia's shortcomings.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b88466a03c8.htm (3554 words)

	A Taped Voice, Said to Be bin Laden's, Criticizes Saudis
		Although it was improbable that any demonstration would have attracted such numbers, a fierce dragnet by security services in downtown Riyadh, the capital, and in Jidda, the commercial hub, prevented even small clusters of protesters from gathering.
		This latest audiotape's reference to the Jidda attacks prove it is of recent vintage.
		Organizers and witnesses interviewed by telephone said checkpoints had been set up on major routes to the two announced locations to screen all cars headed into the center of the two cities and anyone who got out of a car at either site was immediately led away by the police, usually in handcuffs.
	www.thepowerhour.com /news/obl_taped.htm (999 words)

	Welcome to MichaelMoore.com!
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - The audience - 500 women covered in fl at a Saudi university - seemed an ideal place for Karen P. Hughes, a senior Bush administration official charged with spreading the American message in the Muslim world, to make her pitch.
		As a visiting dignitary, she had audiences in the summer palaces of Jidda with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and the foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal.
		In December, there was an armed attack on the American Consulate in Jidda, leaving five people dead, and that meant that the Americans traveling with Ms.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/index.php?id=4294 (1053 words)

	NY Times - Anti-Terror Security Affects Saudi Religious Pilgrimmage
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 4 ó As the hajj pilgrimage season gets under way, the Saudis are seeking security in the blink of an eye.
		Up to 1.5 million pilgrims are descending on the kingdom for the largest annual mass migration of people on the planet ó and the Saudis have begun collecting personal data from these Muslim visitors to start a system for tracking and identifying them.
		Authorities in the Ministry of Pilgrimage and Endowments and in civil aviation insist that visitors have arrived at an oasis of calm.
	www.udel.edu /global/agenda/2002/readings/nytsaudihajjsecurity.html (1197 words)

	Saudi dissidents to get jail, lashings - The Washington Times: World - January 12, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia —; A court has ordered jail terms and lashings for 15 persons convicted of participating in an anti-government demonstration, dealing a setback to the nation's modest reform movement.
		The demonstrators, including at least one woman, were handed sentences on Monday ranging from one to six months in jail and ordered to receive between 100 and 200 lashes.
		But critics of the government cite the imprisonment of three leading reformists and the crackdown on the Jidda demonstrators as evidence that the government is not wholly committed to reform.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20050111-101008-1683r.htm (716 words)

	Saudi-Explosion, 7th Writethru,.. #####..REUSE STORY ID..!!!!...#### (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Lobbing grenades, militants invaded Jidda's heavily guarded U.S. Consulate on Monday, attacking staffers and others in the compound until Saudi security forces stormed in.
		The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and the consulate in Dhahran were closed to the public for two days, as was the Jidda consulate.
		The Saudi cabinet quickly convened and issued a statement condemning the attack and reaffirming the government's determination "to fight terrorism in all its aspects and to hunt down its perpetrators until they are rooted out and the society is cleaned of them."
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/elxn_en/041206/p120608A.html (864 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / US Consulate attacked
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia -- Lobbing grenades, militants invaded Jidda's heavily guarded US Consulate yesterday, attacking staffers and others in the compound until Saudi security forces stormed in.
		After the militants shot their way into the entrance of the US Consulate, the US Marines on duty apparently retreated into the consulate to protect the US diplomats inside, said a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
		The population of Jidda is estimated at more than 2 million.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/12/07/us_consulate_attacked?mode=PF (1370 words)

	Niebuhr, Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East. Volume I. Section XVII. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This city supplies Jidda and Mecca with excellent fruits, particularly raisins, and carries on a considerable trade in almonds, which grow in great plenty in its territories.
		He sends a Pacha to Jidda, who shares the government of this city with the Sherriffe, but who dares neither go to the seat of his government, nor return from it, unless when he can be protected by the great caravan.
		When giving an account of what I saw on board our vessel, in the passage between Suez and Jidda, I had occasion to speak of the Ihhram, and of the place where pilgrims are obliged to assume that garb of humility.
	www.dinsdoc.com /niebuhr-1-17.htm (4327 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, nourished by dew, the eastern Jidda' is relatively well vegetated with a very open acacia woodland of small Acacia tortilis and Prosopis cineraria trees with shrubby A.
		The reintroduced Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx (E) (bin sola in Omani), is the largest indigenous mammal species in the Jidda', and is able to live in the desert for months without water except from plants. It once ranged widely in herds of 2-12 animals across the stony desert between the Rub'al-Khali and the sea.
		The last on the Jidda' were killed in 1972 and the species became extinct in the wild (Henderson,1974).
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/oryx_san.html (2316 words)

	375
		Izzet Pasha persuaded the Sultan to believe that, if the line were started from Jidda, the British were sure to take advantage of it.
		By the time the southern section is completed, the northern section will have gone out of repair; and one can reach Jidda by sea from Istanbul taking the same time as by train.
		The same minister told me further that my Indian friends should not pay a pie unless they can exercise the right of supervision through their men and unless they are assured about the laying of a line from Jidda to Mecca.
	www.mkgandhi.org /cwm/vol6/ch375.htm (1006 words)

	Egypt-Bin-Laden, 4th Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The voice sounded like the al-Qaida terror chief's, and the tape, which was more than an hour, was posted on a site known as a clearinghouse for militant Islamic comment.
		Hundreds of security forces made a show of force in the capital Riyadh and in the port city of Jidda to ward off any protests, chasing a few would-be demonstrators in the streets and arresting several others.
		The tape's reference to the Dec. 6 attack - in which five militants shot their way into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jidda, killing five non-American employees - showed that it was made recently.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/elxn_en/041216/p121615A.html (912 words)

	Search Results for Jidda - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The principal importance of Jiddah in history is that it constituted the port of Mecca and...
		It serves as the country's second Red Sea port, after Jidda, and is the main port for Medina, 100 miles (160 km) to the east.
		From 1908 to 1916 Medina was connected with Damascus by the Hejaz railway, destroyed during World War I. Reconstruction of this railroad is studied periodically, but has never taken place.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Jidda&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (345 words)

	Jeddah - TheBestLinks.com - Jidda, Arabic language, Adam and Eve, Caliph, ...
		Jeddah - TheBestLinks.com - Jidda, Arabic language, Adam and Eve, Caliph,...
		Jidda, Jeddah, Arabic language, Adam and Eve, Caliph, Islam, Mecca, Red Sea...
		Jeddah (also Jedda, Jiddah, or Juddah) is a city on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia with a population of over 2.3 million people.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Jidda.html (249 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| December 7, 2004: Headlines: COS - Oman: Diplomacy: Saudi Arabia: Terrorism: AZ Central.com: The ...
		JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - The daring daytime attack on Monday on the fortresslike U.S. Consulate in the second-largest Saudi city, is calling into question one of the basic precepts of the country's security strategy: that killing or capturing enough militants will eventually bring security back to the troubled kingdom.
		Instead, it seems to be evidence of the militants' ability to regenerate quickly in the face of concerted government efforts to disrupt their networks and then target some of the country's most closely guarded installations.
		The U.S. Consulate in Jidda has been heavily guarded and fortified since attacks against foreign compounds in May 2003.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2025101.html (1381 words)

	CTV.ca - Saudi cleric blasts U.S. consulate attack- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik said in a statement that anyone who enters the kingdom with the permission of its leaders has a promise of security and should not be attacked.
		Okaz also reported al-Juhaini was believed to be the leader of the Jidda attack and had supervised a terror cell in the Red Sea port city.
		But Interior Ministry spokesman Brig.-Gen. Mansour al-Turki told The Associated Press he did not believe al-Juhaini led the cell, and that it was impossible to confirm because four of the five attackers died and the fifth was gravely wounded.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1102535575486_97944775?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (486 words)

	Freed Captive Tells of Ordeal in Attack on Consulate in Jidda: Free Muslims Coalition
		The most senior American officials in the country, Ambassador James C. Oberwetter and Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the consul general in Jidda, defended security at the compound during a news conference on Tuesday, saying the measures had largely worked.
		The men who carried out the attack are believed to be low-ranking members of a cell who were once responsible just for logistics, but after their names were discovered through a series of raids recently around Jidda, they apparently formed an operational unit, said a source close to the investigation.
		Oberwetter said the way the attack had unfolded clearly indicated that the gunmen had studied at least the outer workings of the consulate, a sprawling walled compound of several acres near Jidda's waterfront.
	www.freemuslims.org /news/article.php?article=266 (1271 words)

	HizmetBooks
		Sharif Ghalib Effendi was in Jidda to raise an army to resist the Wahhabis, and the people of Mecca, frightened by the Ta'if calamity, sent a committee to the Wahhabite commander and begged him not to torture them.
		Sharif Ghalib Effendi, with the governor of Jidda, assembled the leaders of the pilgrim caravans from Damascus and Egypt in 1217 and told them that the bandits intended to attack the blessed city of Mecca, and that if they would help him they altogether could capture Sa'ud, their chief.
		According to Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, all the Muslims had died as disbelievers or polytheists since 500 A.H. (1106); the true Islam was revealed to him, and it was not permissible to bury those who became Wahhabis near the graves of polytheists, by which he referred to the real Muslims.
	www.hizmetbooks.org /Advice_for_the_Muslim/wah-39.htm (2803 words)

	Islamic activists win broadly in Saudi local elections / Golden List slate does well even in more diverse areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While candidates from the kingdom's Shiite Muslim minority showed well in some of their eastern strongholds and a handful of independents were elected along the Red Sea, by far the greatest number of winners countrywide came from the Islamic activists.
		Even as the last ballots were being counted, voters, candidates and Saudi analysts in relatively open-minded Jidda debated the meaning of the broad Islamic victory, divided over whether the winners should be viewed as pragmatic moderates or radicals, and whether the result signaled that the kingdom should fear democracy or embrace it more speedily.
		In Jidda, the Golden List of religiously approved candidates surfaced initially as anonymously dispatched text messages on thousands of cell phones, seven names out of the more than 500 candidates competing for the Jidda council.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/24/MNGE7CE7IE1.DTL (560 words)

	Yanbu' Al Bahr
		Yanbu Commercial Port is located on the East coast of Red Sea approximately 460 nautical miles South of Suez Canal and 168 nautical miles North-West of Jeddah.
		Yanbu serves as Saudi Arabia's second Red Sea port, after Jidda, and is the main port for Medina, 100 miles (160 km) to the east.
		Its harbour is being enlarged and improved to ease the pressure on Jidda, and the city is one terminus of three pipelines built in the 1980s for the delivery of petroleum and petroleum products to a major petrochemical complex at Yanbu.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/yanbu.htm (362 words)

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