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November 27, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091126/wl_mideast_afp/saudireligionhajj_20091126123845

Iranian Pilgrims in Mecca Chant "Death to America, Death to Israel"

(AFP) Adel Zaanoun - Thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America, death to Israel" inside a huge tent on Thursday during the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Ayatollah Muhammed Rishari, the representative of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: "We need all Muslims, Sunni and Shiite, to be unified and focus on important issues: Al-Aqsa (mosque in Jerusalem), the occupation of Palestine, the problems in Iraq, the Afghan occupation, and the fighting between brothers in Yemen. We need to be purified from all infidels." Faisal, 52, a Palestinian pilgrim from Israel, said he was praying for "all Muslims to be unified soon to liberate Al-Aqsa and Palestine."

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