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The 10-Minute Mecca Stampede That Made History

By William Langewiesche · Vanity Fair · January 2018
The 10-Minute Mecca Stampede That Made History
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"Investigating the most lethal in a long history of Mecca disasters—in 2015, when some 2,400 pilgrims were crushed or trampled to death on their way to the holy city—William Langewiesche reveals the cause: not “God’s will,” as the authorities claim, but the arrogance and dishonesty of the Saudi regime."

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