The Siege of Mecca
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52mins
Directed by
Dirk van den Berg,
Starring
HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal,
Mark Gregory Hambley,
Christian Prouteau,
Christian Lambert
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On November 20, 1979 at 5:30 in the morning, hundreds of armed men take over the Grand Mosque of Mecca, transforming the holiest shrine of Islam into a fortress and a trap for almost 100,000 pilgrims inside. This was the beginning of the siege of Mecca…
