These graves are part of the network of Islamic sites in Java considered to be sacred.
This event shook the Muslim world with the ensuing violence and killing of hundreds at the holiest of Islamic sites.
The city contains a wide variety of Islamic architectural sites ranging from the 11th to the 19th century.
And it had given them all a terrifying reminder of just how serious an unthwarted Jewish terrorist attack against such revered Islamic religious sites would be.
Go to an Islamic site and it has that funky icon boasting of being in "the top 5 percent of all Web sites."
Some decorations resemble pre-Islamic Tunisian work, others are common to other Islamic sites.
And the Palestinian flag would be flown from the Islamic holy sites.
Major Islamic site and religious center 70 miles north of Baghdad, very close to a main Iraqi chemical research complex and production plant.
Shia Muslims consider the mosque to be the third holiest Islamic site.
The chaos that followed the 1989 Soviet withdrawal kept antiquity traders away from the valley, and the Taliban had protected it as an Islamic site.