Let me update you on rality … gulf war happened a decade after the siege of Kaaba !!!
As for Pakistan’s role … these are “dadi amma” stories told in Pakistan … while the siege was taking place … Zia was marshalling his people to attack the American Embassy …
Get some info on this issue … regaring Jordan … this is what i find hilarious when Pakistanis say they care for Palestinians … it was PLO that bore the brunt of Zia’s attack … so much for Muslim brotherhood !!!
The Siege of Mecca, by Yaroslav Trofimov.
French assistance
Saudi authority decided that their troops were too slow in defeating the rebels and that Saudi family rule was indeed threatened. Reluctant to seek help from the U.S., the Saudis approached the French, who sent three men from their secret force, the *Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), *to train Saudi officers in efficient tactics
Pakistan’s role
At the U.S. embassy in Pakistan a crowd chanted “Death to American dogs” and broke into the compound, while Marine guards were not allowed to fire their weapons.Demonstrators firing weapons killed one Marine and a U.S. Army warrant officer. Embassy personnel, 137 of them, huddled inside the embassy vault, nearly overcome by the heat and suffocation while the embassy burned, and they waited for help from Pakistani police, which did not come. Pakistan’s dictator, General Zia, was playing to the crowd, reluctant to alienate his fellow Muslims. While the lives of embassy personnel hung in the balance, he promised to make Pakistan “an impregnable fortress of Islam,” proclaiming “the situation” at the Grand Mosque “extremely sad” and proclaiming that “Muslims must pray to God Almighty to bestow His blessing and mercy on the Muslin World.” No help to U.S. Embassy personnel came from Pakistani police. Now free to defend themselves with firearms, those huddled in the embassy vault fired back against those at the vault hatch on the embassy’s roof. Night came and the embassy attackers went away. The Carter administration was misinformed, believing that Zia had immediately dispatched troops to the embassy. President Carter and Secretary of State Vance praised Zia and his troops for their stellar behavior, leaving those who had suffered through the attack on the embassy livid with anger against Carter.