Three suicide attacks in 24 hours -- that's how Saudis will remember the end of Ramadan, a month that has seen the wider region plunged into a wave of terror-related violence.
The
attacks -- including one in Medina, one of the holiest sites in Islam
-- follow massive jihadi assaults from Turkey to Iraq that have been
been tied to ISIS. Analysts believe events in Saudi Arabia could also be
the work of the terror group.
Two
of the attacks failed but four people were killed in the third, all of
which appear to be coordinated -- targeting both Saudi security forces
and Western interests.
Medina is a city eclipsed only by Mecca in the Muslim's sacred imagination.
Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on Medina's Great Mosque, usually before or after the hajj pilgrimage, or during the last ten nights of Ramadan, keen to visit the tomb of Prophet Mohammed , to pray in his mosque, to sit where he once sat, in this holiest time of year.
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