1.   Thousands of Muslim pilgrims traveled to Mecca.

2.   Among its big-volume passengers are Muslim pilgrims flying from Indonesia to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

3.   Iraq confounded the United Nations again last week by sending a plane load of Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in a pretense of piety.

4.   Others had left for Saudi Arabia after the attack, along with the Muslim pilgrims whose anger served as a cover for the killing.

5.   The Security Council Wednesday eased its three-year-old ban on flights from Libya to permit Egyptian airliners to carry Muslim pilgrims to Mecca.

6.   Palestinian Airlines will launch its maiden voyages on Friday, taking two planeloads of Muslim pilgrims to the Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah, the airline announced Thursday.

7.   A fire erupted Sunday in an apartment building housing hundreds of Muslim pilgrims, forcing residents to flee.

8.   A planeload of Muslim pilgrims, boasting they would defy U.N. sanctions against international air travel, left Tripoli on Wednesday for Mecca.

9.   A planeload of Muslim pilgrims left Tripoli on Wednesday with boastful shouts they would defy U.N. sanctions against international air travel.

10.   About half entered the oil-rich kingdom as Muslim pilgrims and stayed after their visas expire.