Meccan Genocide

The Meccan Genocide, also known as the Hajj Genocide was an event that took place in 88 BU that involved the detonation of a thermonuclear explosive (hydrogen bomb) in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, at the hands of the anti-Muslim terrorist group Revenant. It was deliberately timed to happen during the final day of the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, when millions of Muslim pilgrims would be in Mecca, in order to kill as many Muslims as possible. The bomb killed over 6 million people, somewhat shy of the number killed in the Holocaust. It is heralded as being the beginning of the nuclear chapter of the Century War, as well as the event responsible the revival of the Islamic Caliphate.

Terminology
The genocide is colloquially referred to as the Mecca Attack, the Bombing of Mecca or the Nuking of Mecca, and by enemies of the Caliphate sometimes as the Judgement of Mecca. The term genocide is preferred to indicate the severity of the incident and the number of people who were killed, as well as to differentiate it from other, earlier terrorist attacks involving explosives.

Event
The Meccan Genocide was orchestrated by the Revenant terrorist group. Although Revenant at one point controlled much of the UK, they never gained access to that country's nuclear arsenal, being prevented from doing so by the more powerful National Front. The thermonuclear device used in the attack was instead stolen from North Korea, and transported across the Russian Federation and into the Euro Alliance, before crossing the straight of Gibraltar into North Africa, crossing the Sahara desert and then shipped across the Red Sea from Port Sudan to Al Lith, Saudi Arabia.

It was then driven from Al Lith to Mecca in an oil tanker truck, filled with water and oil in order to mask the radiation emitted by the bomb and prevent possible detection by Geiger counters. It was driven by a Saudi truck driver, who was unaware of the truck's contents.

The bomb, which had a yield of 2 megatons (2 millions tons of TNT), was detonated outside the Masjid Al Haram (Holy Mosque) on the evening of the final day of the Hajj. Over 4 million pilgrims were in and around the mosque at the time, and were killed instantly. A further 2 million in the surrounding areas died minutes later, and almost all of the city was completely destroyed by the explosion and the fires that followed. The radioactive fallout made the entirety of the city uninhabitable, and Mecca has since been devoid of human life. Thousands more people were possibly killed as a result of radioactive fallout being blown over Jeddah. The site of the Masjid Al Haram became a crater 490 meters wide and 120 meters deep.