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Kim Ghattas’s book Black Wave attempts to trace a forty-year long international rivalry to events that took place in this year. Yaroslav Trofimov’s 2007 book on an event that took place in this year argues that Paul Barrill participated in it to boost his image rather than as a neocolonial ploy. Mehmet Ali Ağca planned on assassinating John Paul II to get revenge for an event that took place in this year, which also prompted students at Quaid-e-Azam University to burn down the (*) U. S. Embassy in Islamabad. In this year, GIGN assisted in taking down insurgents who referred to themselves as “al-Ikhwan.” A world leader who propounded velayat-e-faqih accused an “American-Zionist alliance” of taking down Juhayman al-Otaybi’s Salafist (-5[1])cell in this year. For 10 points, the Grand Mosque seizure took place after (10[1])the Iranian Revolution ended in what year? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: 1979 (Trofimov’s book is The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda.)
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