[Mackey]

re: "their targets: Riyadh, Damascus, and Teheran"

You forgot Mecca and Medina!

During the Haj would be best.

As much as I would like to see those places disappear in a thermonuclear flash, there is a good reason why it should never be done: it would leave Al Aqsa on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as the number-one surviving muslim holy place.

[FreedomCalls]

it would leave Al Aqsa on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as the number-one surviving muslim holy place.

Not after the Israelis tear it down to rebuild Solomon's Temple.

[SJackson]

it would leave Al Aqsa on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as the number-one surviving muslim holy place.

The third most important historical site, this place? It's importance is a recent phenom.