The Siege of Mecca

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In 1979, Muslim fundamentalists staged a violent takeover of Islam’s holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia. This incident was largely unreported in the West, but Yaroslav Trofimov argues that it inspired al-Qaeda and countless other Islamic revivalist movements to even greater acts of violence. Trofimov's new book about the takeover and its aftermath is The Siege of Mecca,

The Siege of Mecca is available for purchase at amazon.com

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