Muslim pilgrims stone wall, cut hair at haj
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MINA, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims threw pebbles at a stone wall outside Mecca, shaved their heads and bought sacrificial animals on Wednesday, the third day of the annual haj pilgrimage to the Mecca area.
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A view of the Dome of the Rock mosque, located in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam&#39;s third holiest site and known by Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem&#39;s Old City Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
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MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Millions of white-robed pilgrims threw pebbles at pillars yesterday, symbolically stoning the devil in an act of purification, an old ritual made safer this year because of remodeling that widened bridges and reduced congestion.
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As a devout Muslim, Celal Hasnalcaci believes women should cover their hair and dress modestly, as the Koran teaches. As
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QOM, Iran -- These are pilgrims of a different kind. Several times a week, Shi'ite Muslim clerics and community leaders from neighboring Iraq climb stairs to a little office in this Iranian city of shrines and Islamic seminaries. There, an aged and hunched figure sits on a swivel chair fitted with an electric blanket.
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Iraqi and U.N. officials toured a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine in northern Iraq on Wednesday as workers took the first steps in a long-delayed reconstruction Â nearly two years after the attack on the famed golden dome became a rallying point for Shiite rage.
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Bosnia Herzegovina has formed an organisation with a function similar to that of the Pilgrims Fund Board (Tabung Haji) to handle its 2,000-odd haj pilgrims to Mecca this year.
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MUZDALIFA, Saudi Arabia  - Millions of Muslim pilgrims moved to Muzdalifa on Tuesday evening after spending the afternoon on the plain of Arafat east of Mecca at the peak of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Saudi Arabia says it is  ready to host more than two million pilgrims at this year's haj  after tightening security and safety to ensure the annual  Muslim rite passes without incident.
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Agra, India - Tourists flocked to the Indian city of Agra Monday for the start of marathon celebrations marking the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, the architectural wonder built by a Mughal emperor in memory of his dead wife.
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More than two million Muslims stand on Mount Arafat for the high point of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - Haj pilgrims pelted stones  at symbols of the devil on Friday, and many said they were  targeting President Bush and other world leaders seen as  oppressing Muslims.
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - More than 2.5 million  Muslims began a sacred stoning ritual on Thursday, praising new  measures aimed at averting deadly stampedes that have marred  the haj pilgrimage in the past.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - The annual haj pilgrimage began in Mecca on Monday when hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims put on white clothes, packed their bags and left for a tented encampment on the edge of the holy city.
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Pilgrims streaming into Islam's holy city for the annual hajj prayed for the 157,000 people killed in last month's tsunami that devastated southern Asia, asking God to give survivors the courage to cope.
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Shiite pilgrims came under attack again Tuesday, police said, with at least eight killed as they streamed south from Baghdad on foot toward a shrine ahead of a Muslim holiday this weekend.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Hotel employee Rafaat Maher dreamed  the postwar reconstruction of Iraq would lure throngs of  customers to enjoy the view of sacred Najaf.