1 Al - Haj is one of three men sent to Sudan from Guantanamo on Thursday.

2 Ahmed Haj Ali, a pro-government analyst in Damascus, told the U. S. -funded al-Hurra TV that it is not clear which activists will represent the opposition, and who would participate in the debate.

3 Tripoli's new military commander, Abdel Hakim Bel Haj, once belonged to the Libyan Islamist Fighting Group, regarded as an affiliate of al-Qaeda, which he subsequently renounced.

4 Haj is the main annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which is due to start in November.

5 As part of his mission, the Grammy-nominated Al Haj donated the proceeds from his last album, which featured a stellar cast of international musicians, to Doctors without Borders to help Iraqi relief.

6 Rahim Al Haj says having the forum of the Olympic Games allows him to communicate with people from all over the world, and he feels a special responsibility to reach those in Vancouver.

7 All of us, I said, including women from all over the world wear white clothes when they perform Haj or Umrah.

8 Over the years he returned several times to the city, first to complete a masters degree and then a doctorate, writing a thesis on Mecca and the haj cities.

9 She was eager to inform her daughters about the important rulings for women performing the Haj and Umrah.

10 She said women should not wear white clothes during Haj and Umrah because that would be emulating the ihraam clothes that men wear during pilgrimage.

11 On one run, for example, the model showed precisely the pattern seen in a video of a catastrophe in Mecca in 2006, when 346 pilgrims there on the haj were crushed to death.

12 Not exactly what would - be pilgrims wanted to as they anxiously await their permits for the haj.

13 Its first line, connecting the main sites of the haj ritual, should be up and running by November, just in time for the greatest annual influx of pilgrims.