1.   Last year the committee created a voucher system under which Iraqi pilgrims received a certificate in Baghdad that they could exchange for cash in Saudi banks.

2.   To maintain strict control over the money, it developed a system that required Iraqi pilgrims to exchange vouchers for cash once they crossed into Saudi Arabia.

3.   A U.N. committee was divided Thursday about whether the flight of Iraqi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia violated U.N. sanctions.

4.   Baghdad also failed to respond to a plan to allow Saudi Arabia to manage travel and lodging arrangements for Iraqi pilgrims, he said.

5.   But some busloads of Iraqi pilgrims were still en route to Mecca when the first buses turned back.

6.   Eighteen-thousand Iraqi pilgrims, led by senior Iraqi officials, rode in a convoy through Saudi checkpoints without stopping.

7.   If the Iraqi pilgrims are to reach their destination, Saudi authorities presumably would have to bus them or fly them from a nearby airport.

8.   If the thousands of Iraqi pilgrims are to reach their destination, Saudi authorities would presumably have to bus them or fly them from a nearby airport.

9.   Iraq earlier this month flew a planeload of Iraqi pilgrims to the hajj in Saudi Arabia.

10.   It proposed wiring the funds to neighboring Jordan, which would issue vouchers to Iraqi pilgrims that could be redeemed for cash in Saudi Arabia.