MECCA: More than two million Muslim pilgrims began streaming out of here towards Mena yesterday, the first day of a haj pilgrimage marked by grief over the Asian tsunami disaster and security fears.
This year's haj has a particular poignancy for thousands of pilgrims from Asia, where most of the world's one billion Muslims live, after December's devastating tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake off Indonesia.
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