{"id":2307,"date":"2007-09-15T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T10:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T10:48:28","slug":"2007-9-15-the-siege-of-mecca-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2307","title":{"rendered":"The siege of Mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/siegeofmecca\/\">this book<\/a>. (You can get it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0385519257%26tag=cairocalling-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0385519257%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Amazon<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Looking through the book&#8217;s site linked above, there are PDF versions of declassified Western intelligence documents on the siege. Some interesting examples are this US embassy in Cairo report of how Mubarak, vice-president at the time, ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/siegeofmecca\/pdf\/24119_27Nov1979.pdf\">al-Ahram to downplay news of the siege<\/a> that was going to be on the top banner headline or how Hassan II sent his most vital aide at the time, Moulay Hafid Alaoui, to Jeddah with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/siegeofmecca\/pdf\/8371_28Nov1979.pdf\">commandos from the Gendarmerie Royale<\/a> to be put at King Khalid&#8217;s disposal. H2 was ready send several hundred more commandos, in the grand tradition of Moroccan brawn working for Saudi Arabia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/siegeofmecca\/\">this book<\/a>. (You can get it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0385519257%26tag=cairocalling-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/0385519257%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\">Amazon<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<strong>Update: <\/strong>Looking through the book&#8217;s site linked above, there are PDF versions of declassified Western intelligence documents on the siege. Some interesting examples are this US embassy in Cairo report of how Mubarak, vice-president at the time, ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/siegeofmecca\/pdf\/24119_27Nov1979.pdf\">al-Ahram to downplay news of the siege<\/a> that was going to be on the top banner headline or how Hassan II sent his most vital aide at the time, Moulay Hafid Alaoui, to Jeddah with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/doubleday\/siegeofmecca\/pdf\/8371_28Nov1979.pdf\">commandos from the Gendarmerie Royale<\/a> to be put at King Khalid&#8217;s disposal. H2 was ready send several hundred more commandos, in the grand tradition of Moroccan brawn working for Saudi Arabia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}