Maqdisis was involved in the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure.
Mr. YAROSLAV TROFIMOV (Reporter, Wall Street Journal): “about 100,000 people appeared in the Grand Mosque of Mecca for the dawn prayer. What they didn’t know was that all of them would become hostages within minutes of the prayer beginning. A group of jihadis, several hundred jihadis, from Saudi Arabia, from Egypt, but also some Americans and Canadians - converts to Islam - had entered the mosque with weapons, overpowered the guards, shut down the gates and proclaimed the arrival of the savior, the Mahdi, that would cleanse the Muslim world from its impurities brought in by the Westerners.” —————————NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051155
Oh yeah... also note that Maqdidi’s got some other ideology that went unmentioned:
Essam Al Barqawi a/k/a Abu Muhamamad Al Maqdisi
http://www.takfiris.com/takfir/articles/wdzlo-abu-muhammad-al-maqdisi-isaam-barqawi.cfm
Kind of explains the stealing of aid food and its redistribution under ISIS label and their other emphasis on providing “social services,” the reference to ISIS’ weird blend of devout Islam with progressive-like behavior.
Carrot and stick strategy. We feed you or else, you obey or starve...