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	362 pilgrims killed in Mina stampede: Over 1,000 injured -DAWN - Top Stories; January 14, 2006
		MINA (Saudi Arabia), Jan 13: Hundreds of pilgrims were crushed to death and almost 1,000 injured, some critically, during a stampede at Jamaraat in Mina, as crowds surged to carry out ‘rami’ on Thursday.
		The Saudi government was yet to announce identity of the dead pilgrims.
		Hujjaj from Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Britain were also among those killed in the stampede that occurred on Thursday at around 1:10pm local time.
	www.dawn.com /2006/01/14/top1.htm (673 words)

	Mina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mina is also an ancient unit of weight defined as being 50 shekels.
		Mina is another name of the Gen language (a Ghana/Togo language of the Gbe dialect cluster).
		Mina, stage name of Anna Maria Mazzini, is a famous Italian female singer from 1960s to date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mina (162 words)

	Stampede During Hajj Ritual Kills 345
		MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Thousands of Muslim pilgrims rushing to complete a symbolic stoning ritual during the hajj tripped over luggage Thursday, causing a crush in which at least 345 people were killed despite Saudi attempts to prevent stampedes that have plagued the annual event.
		Mina General Hospital, a small facility several hundred yards from the site, was filled with injured, and some victims were sent to hospitals in Mecca and Riyadh, said Ismail Abdul-Zaher, a doctor at the hospital.
		Saudi authorities replaced the small round pillars with short walls to allow more people to throw their stones without jostling for position.
	www.breitbart.com /news/2006/01/12/D8F3A9982.html (988 words)

	Saudi Arabia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea; on the east by the Persian Gulf, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates; on the south by Yemen and Oman; and on the north by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait.
		Saudi Arabia formerly shared a neutral zone with Iraq and another with Kuwait; both are now divided between the countries.
		House of Saud: a house of sand: as internal dissension festers in the kingdom of Arabia, the Saudi royal family straddles the fence between Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda and the U.S. war on terror.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SaudiA1ra.asp (618 words)

	Covering the War on Terror: Saudi Arabia Archives
		Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said in remarks published Sunday that “no stone will remain unturned in the fight against terror” and called for cooperation with the security forces to identify terror cells that may still be in Saudi Arabia.
		DUBAI - Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said in remarks published Sunday that “no stone will remain unturned in the fight against terror” and called for cooperation with the security forces to identify terror cells that may still be in Saudi Arabia.
		He expressed his strong regret that the perpetrators of last Wednesday’s blast were Saudis and questioned how they were able to stand against their nation and religion and kill innocent citizens while demolishing state property in such a devastating manner.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/terror/archives/cat_saudi_arabia.html (558 words)

	Saudi Arabia Shia Islamic News, JAFARIYANEWS
		AL-AWJAM, Saudi Arabia: Preparations to mark the birth anniversary of Thamen Al-A’immah Al-At’har (eighth of the infallible imams from the progeny of holy Prophet, peace be upon him and his pure progeny) Al-Imam Ali ben Mussa Ar-Redha (peace be upon him) have been given final touches in Saudi Arabia.
		HOLY MEDINA, Saudi Arabia: Direct flights into the holy city of Medina are set to bring in 350,000 pilgrims from various parts of the world, and there will be 800 buses waiting at the airport to transport them to their places of residence.
		RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Within few minutes, the visitors of the holy Shrine of Prophet Muhammad bin Abdellah (p) in the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia, would be able to move easily to the shrine and among the regions of the holy sanctuary, Qobaa and Shohadaa.
	www.jafariyanews.com /regional/saudiarabia2.htm (2418 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - The Hajj
		MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Muslims from around the globe arrived in Mina Valley outside the holy city of Mecca, marking the beginning of the annual pilgrimage which highlights the core message of Islam: universal peace.
		The main activity in the tent city of Mina was centered around Khaif Mosque where thousands of pilgrims were waiting for their turn to say the five mandatory prayers.
		In Mina, the pilgrims were busy reflecting on all that they have done in their lifetime -- right and wrong.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/hajj/stories/notebook.02 (545 words)

	Some 1.7M Muslims flock to Mina at the start of hajj - Jan. 31, 2004
		MINA, Saudi Arabia - Some 1.7 million faithful poured into Mina, an arid valley near the holy city of Mecca, on the first day of the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage Friday.
		The journey to Mina is taking place amid the tightest security measures, imposed by the Saudi authorities to ensure the safety of the near two million pilgrims.
		In the Saudi capital, Riyadh, 700 kilometers (435 miles) from Mecca, five Saudi security men and the father of a wanted militant were shot dead by unknown gunmen during a raid on Thursday, after the militant was arrested.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/jan/31/wnw_5-1.htm (377 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Pilgrimage security high amid terrorism fears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MINA, Saudi Arabia — The Interior Ministry has mobilized more than 50,000 forces to prepare for the annual hajj pilgrimage, officials said Saturday, but they warned that terrorists may still be able to launch attacks.
		The forces will safeguard Saudi's holiest Islamic sites for an estimated 2 million Muslims who are expected to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca, a once-in-a-lifetime duty of all able-bodied Muslims who can afford it to cleanse the soul and wipe away sin.
		Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef urged countries sending pilgrims to the kingdom to ensure their citizens behave properly to make the hajj safe for all.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600105093,00.html (643 words)

	CNN - Saudi diplomat: Hajj fire was an accident - Apr. 16, 1997
		MINA, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian diplomat said on Wednesday a fire that killed hundreds near the holy city of Mecca was an accident with no political ramifications.
		In Mina, the air was thick with the smell of smoke, and the ground was littered with remains from burned-out buses to charred water bottles.
		Bangladesh's official news agency BSS said it had received a report from the embassy in Saudi Arabia that only one of its citizens had been killed in the fire.
	robots.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/16/saudi (681 words)

	Hajj stampede kills 35 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A stampede broke out Monday during the annual hajj pilgrimage, killing 35 Muslims during the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
		A 1997 fire in Mina, the city where the stoning takes place, tore through the sprawling, overcrowded tent city, trapping and killing more than 340 pilgrims and injuring 1,500.
		While Saudi authorities have said all animals to be slaughtered were free from disease, Muslims around the world, especially in Europe, were unable to perform the sacrifice following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which infects cloven-hoofed animals, after many countries imposed import and export bans on the animals.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-03-05-hajj.htm (834 words)

	35 crushed, trampled to death in Hajj crowd in Saudi Arabia - The Daily Texan - World & Nation
		MINA, Saudi Arabia -- The convergence of millions of pilgrims has once again brought tragedy, with the deaths Monday of 35 Muslims trampled during the stoning the devil ritual at the annual hajj pilgrimage.
		Hours later, the enormous crowd was calm and many of the estimated 2 million pilgrims in the sprawling, overcrowded tent city were unaware of it.
		An official at the Mina General Hospital told The Associated Press that hundreds of pilgrims, mostly women and the elderly, were rushed to hospitals around the city but that most were treated and released.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2001/03/06/WorldNation/35.Crushed.Trampled.To.Death.In.Hajj.Crowd.In.Saudi.Arabia-699023.shtml (397 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - At least 345 pilgrims killed in Haj crush
		MINA, Saudi Arabia - At least 345 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death on Thursday during a stoning ritual on the last day of the Haj, the worst tragedy to beset the sacred ritual in more than a decade.
		Saudi security forces set up a tight cordon around the Jamarat Bridge to control the crowds, as many pilgrims thronged to carry on stoning three walls in a symbolic casting out of the devil and rejection of temptation.
		Saudi Arabia has revamped the Jamarat area by expanding the stoning targets and provided an unprecedented security blanket including 60,000 security men to control the huge crowd and avert possible attacks by militants.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/January/middleeast_January303.xml§ion=middleeast (630 words)

	Mina, Saudi Arabia Information
		Mina is a desert location situated some 5 kilometres to the east of the Islamic holy city of Mecca (Makkah) in Saudi Arabia.
		Mina is best known for the role it plays during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, when its tent cities provide temporary accommodation to hundreds of thousands of visiting pilgrims.
		It is also the location of the Stoning of the Devil ritual, performed between sunrise and sunset on the last day of the Hajj.
	www.bookrags.com /Mina%2C_Saudi_Arabia (98 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: 23 Indians killed in Haj stampede identified
		As many as 23 of the 24 Indians killed in Thursday's stampede near Mina in Saudi Arabia on the last day of this year's Haj have been identified so far, a senior Indian official said today.
		Indian ambassador in Saudi Arabia Mohammed Hamid Ansari told UNI over the telephone from Jeddah that one of the victims, believed to be an Indian, was yet to be identified.
		Saudi authorities said the tragedy, which occurred during the ritual of 'stoning the devil', claimed 118 lives in all.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/apr/11haj1.htm (1108 words)

	HAJJ PILGRIMAGE IN SAUDI ARABIA: Millions of Muslims gather for spiritual journey
		MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Thousands of people began one of the final rituals of the hajj early today, each throwing seven pebbles at large stone pillars symbolizing the devil.
		Saudi Arabia's top cleric, speaking at a mosque nearby, lamented violence waged by Muslim militants against Saudi Arabia and said a hostile world was conspiring against Islam.
		The fatwa allowing pilgrims to stone the pillars before dawn prayers was a result of precautions taken by Saudi officials to prevent the deadly stampedes during the ritual in the past.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/hajj20e_20050120.htm (423 words)

	Saudi king orders Mecca, Medina modernization - Feb. 03, 2004
		MINA, Saudi Arabia - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia ordered the holy places of Mecca and Medina to be modernized hours after 244 Muslims - half of them Asians - died during a ritual that regularly results in deadly stampedes at the hajj pilgrimage.
		It promised to be a further high-risk exercise for the Saudi authorities who had nonetheless announced last month an "integrated crowd control strategy" to prevent new tragedies during the annual event.
		Pilgrims were to be dispatched in groups for the rite at a huge two-tier bridge, limitations imposed on the numbers heading toward the area and Special Forces deployed immediately to disperse people in case of a stampede.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/feb/03/wnw_4-1.htm (647 words)

	SOCIOLOGY 265 -- News Articles
		In the remains of the Mina encampment trucks were beginning yesterday to cart away burned out wreckage of everything from charred water bottles to refrigerators, air conditioners - the temperature is 104 F - and buses which which were caught by the fire as strong winds spread the flames.
		Saudi Arabia says that it has spent $18.6bn in the last ten years on improving facilities for those attending the Hajj.
		The Saudi authorities say that their problems stem from the failure of Muslim countries to keep to a quota system agreed in 1988 by the Organisation of the Islamic Countries.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/leming/soc265rel/news/April_17.html (2451 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Saudi Arabia
		RIYADH, Saudi Arabia For the first time in a decade, the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia with its vast pools of oil, its status as the cradle of Islam and its violent clashes over faith and power fell under the control of a strong king with centralized powers.
		Saudi Arabia, a monarchy with a strong Islamist flavor, is quite different from Syria, a radical Arab nationalist regime ruled largely by the Alawite minority.
		The recent nationwide elections in Saudi Arabia were a striking example of the conflict felt by the ruling family between the pressure to change and the urge to leave things just as they are.
	politics.surfwax.com /files/Saudi_Arabia_Election.html (4772 words)

	JS Online: Other Cases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		May 23, 1994, Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 270 killed in a stampede as worshippers surge during stoning of the devil ritual.
		March 5, 2001, Mina, Saudi Arabia: 35 killed in stampede during stoning of the devil ritual.
		11, 2003, Mina, Saudi Arabia: 14 Muslim pilgrims trampled to death at a ritual near the end of the hajj pilgrimage.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nat/feb03/119218.asp?format=print (498 words)

	Shiite News from Saudi Arabia \| Jafariya News Network
		AL-QATEEF, Saudi Arabia: A poetry conference marking the gruesome Tragedy of Karbala in which holy Prophet Muhammad (p)’s grandson Al-Imam Al-Hussein bin Ali bin Abi Taleb (P) along with his 72 loyal companions was slaughtered unjustly in the scorching plain of Karbala some 1,400 years ago was held in Al-Qateef, Saudi Arabia.
		SEHAT, Saudi Arabia: Devotees of Ahlol Bayt (p) in Saudi Arabia observed Zekraa Estash’had Sebt An-Nabee Al-Akbar, or the Martyrdom Anniversary of Holy Prophet (p)’s elder grandson Al-Imam Al-Hassan Al-Mojtaba Az-Zakee (p) on Safar 7.
		AL-QATEEF, Saudi Arabia: As Shiias of Saudi Arabia, who make up majority in the oil-rich eastern parts of the kingdom, prepare to vote in the second round of landmark local elections, their leaders termed polls as a chance to assert the presence of the Shia as equal citizens.
	www.jafariyanews.com /saudiarabia.htm (1184 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Saudi Arabia
		Saudi succession: "King Fahd, the absolutist monarch of Saudi Arabia who guided his desert kingdom through swerves in the oil market, regional wars and the incessant, high-stakes scrimmage between Islamic tradition and breakneck modernization, died today," the New York Times.
		Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's most sacred shrines, states in the first article of its Basic Law that the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad's traditions are the nation's constitution, later saying, "Saudi society will be based on the principle of adherence to...
		Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Korea both qualified handily from Group One and Korea has a chance to avenge a 2-0 loss to the Saudis in the final game scheduled for mid-August...
	travel.surfwax.com /files/Saudi_Arabia_Travel.html (5671 words)

	Mecca, Saudi Arabia - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		SAUDI Arabia's King Fahd has ordered "overall plans" to be drawn up to modernise the holy cities of Mecca and Medina after 251 pilgrims died in a stampede...
		Saudi Arabia, Feb 1 - Several people were trampled to death Sunday during the "stoning of Satan" ritual at Mina, near Mecca, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage...
		Saudi Arabia) - At least 244 pilgrims were trampled to death during the haj on Sunday, in one of the deadliest tragedies seen at the annual pilgrimage to Mecca...
	www.4newz.net /world/am/Mecca.html (9537 words)

	244 Trampled to Death in Saudi Pilgrimage (washingtonpost.com)
		MINA, Saudi Arabia - At least 244 people were trampled to death and hundreds more hurt Sunday under the crush of worshippers in one of the deadliest disasters during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
		The stampede occurred during the stoning of the devil, an emotional and notoriously perilous hajj ritual.
		Mansour al-Turki of the Saudi General Security Forces said about 10,000 general security officers were on duty in the area at the time.
	sitesearch.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A4147-2004Feb1.html (740 words)

	Islam Republic
		AP Muslims walk in the courtyard of the grand mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia An estimated two million Muslims are embarking on their annual hajj pilgrimage to the holy region of Mecca and Medina.
		MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Five Saudi security agents were killed in a shoot-out with terror suspects in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, yesterday, as nearly 2 million Muslims from around the world began the annual hajj...
		ABC News MINA, Saudi Arabia Jan. 30 — The hajj pilgrimage began in earnest Friday as Muslims from aroun...
	archive.wn.com /2004/01/30/1400/islamrepublic (672 words)

	2 On Your Side - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(Mina, Saudi Arabia-AP) -- It's the worst tragedy in seven years at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
		Nearly 250 pilgrims were trampled to death today, and hundreds more hurt, beneath a crush of people making their way to a ritualistic stoning of the devil.
		AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.
	www.wgrz.com /storyfull.asp?id=18800 (220 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - The Hajj
		MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Thirty-five pilgrims lost their lives while carrying out the ritual of the Stoning of the Great Satan here on Monday morning.
		Saad bin Abdullah Al-Tuwaijer of the Civil Defense stated that 23 women and 12 men of various nationalities were crushed to death as a huge crowd rushed toward one of three giant pillars representing the devil.
		The scene in Mina today was one of chaos as pilgrims separated from their groups in the morning stampede searched for their camps.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/hajj/stories/notebook.04 (579 words)

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