11.   The news agency said the first helicopter flight would bring pilgrims to the Mosul, a city in northern Iraq.

12.   TV minister Christine Darg, who is based in Hereford, England, has been bringing pilgrims to the Holy Land for the past five years.

13.   Egyptair has begun bringing Libyan pilgrims to Saudi Arabia after a Libyan aircraft violated the UN air embargo on Tripoli, an Egyptian airline official said Monday.