"We are victims two ways," he said in his small study after Friday midday prayers.
"It's a Muslim's duty to protect it," he said during a tour of the tomb, interrupted by midday prayers.
Activists also said that at least eight people were killed elsewhere across Syria as protesters took to the streets after Friday's midday prayers.
After Ahmad and I left the coffeehouse, we watched men transform a small, empty square by spreading out straw mats for midday prayers.
And he said that his body had not been found, though it appeared in a coffin Friday morning before midday prayers.
In what has become a weekly ritual, Mr. Saleh delivered a speech in front of tens of thousands of supporters following midday prayers.
"Iraq cannot be unified until it is governed by its people," Mr. Abbas told 1,000 people in the compound this afternoon before midday prayers.
The Taliban, which is leading an insurgency against Mr. Karzai's government and foreign troops, publicly executed those convicted of capital crimes — usually on Fridays after midday prayers.
"We will stay here until they restructure the army; then we will consider our revolution a success," said Mohammed al-Jaradi, a young activist walking between tents to find lunch after midday prayers.
The fighting seemed to stop by the 7 p.m. curfew in effect here and in much of Egypt on Fridays, the customary day for street protests after worshipers gather for midday prayers.
"I hate to see it, but I think during Ramadan you will see millions of Muslims going to fight," he said, as dozens of men outside hurried toward a nearby mosque for midday prayers.
