1.   Even Muslim visitors would face restrictions outside the main Islamic shrines.

2.   They described the gathering as an Israeli attempt to destroy Islamic shrines, and vowed to resist with bloodshed, if necessary.

3.   President Saddam Hussein has instructed his government to lift a ban against Iranians who live abroad visiting Islamic holy shrines in Iraq, the Iraqi News Agency reported Saturday.

4.   Arafat could expect an outcry across the Muslim world if he waters down Palestinian demands of control of east Jerusalem, home to major Islamic shrines.

5.   Arafat gave Farrakhan a model of the Islamic shrines in Jerusalem, and the two shook hands but did not hug.

6.   Arafat has not acknowledged that the biblical Jewish Temples stood on the site where an Islamic shrine and mosque are located now.

7.   East Jerusalem is home to several Islamic shrines, including the Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques.

8.   East Jerusalem is home to important Islamic shrines.

9.   Every year, pilgrims board planes bound for Islamic shrines in Saudi Arabia.

10.   Hussein was to visit Islamic shrines in nearby Mecca to perform a pilgrimage known as umra and later meet with King Fahd.