Friday, November 27, 2009 MAKKAH MUKARRAMA: Millions of Muslims in Maidan-e-Arafat after performing the Hajj Rukn-e-Azam, overnight stay in Mazdalfa left for Mina in the morning. Saudi Arabia Mufti-e-Azam, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al Sheikh delivering Khutba-e-Hajj at Masjid-e-Nimra in Maidan-e-Arafat said the world and the ummah presently facing the greatest challenge of terrorism, which was being used for dividing the ummah into pieces. He condemned the practice of enforcing the views by force. Drawing the attention of the youths, he said that the western channels were misleading the Muslim youths, but the Muslim media should counter it.Following the Khutba, Zuhar and Asar prayers were together offered and, thereafter, the pilgrims went for Waquf in Maidan-e-Arafat.Khadim Al-Haramain Al-Sharifain King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and members of the Saudi cabinet were present in Mina for looking after the facilities given to the Hujjaj.Hujjaj after reaching Muzdalfa offered Maghrib and Isha prayers together and after overnight stay in Mazdalfa offering Namaz-e-Fajr started leaving for Mina for Rami Jamarat.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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