They are camping in al-Sharaa’i’ to keep the peace; from where should they enter ihram?
Question

                We are members of the Armed Forces and we participate in the Hajj Mission every year; we stay in al-Sharaa’i’ for approximately one month. During our tour of duty, we travelin the form of a convoy and the convoy is not allowed to stop at the miqaat. We go past the miqaat to the al-Sharaa’i’ area outside Makkah. Should we go out to al-Ji’raanah in order to enter ihram from there, or should we go back to al-Sayl al-Kabeer in order to enter ihram, because we will have passed it during our journey, or should we enter ihram from our camp which is al-Sharaa’i outside Makkah, near al-Amyaal?.
Praise be to Allah.
      So long as you have come to work and you have passed the 
      miqaat, if one of you wants to enter ihram, he should do so from where he 
      is inside the boundary of the miqaat, because he entered with the 
      intention of working and the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon 
      him) said, when mentioning the miqaats: “and whoever is living within 
      these boundaries can enter ihraam from the place he sets out, and the 
      people of Makkah can start from Makkah.” But if any of you had already 
      decided to do Hajj or ‘umrah when he passed the Miqaat, then he has to go 
      back to the miqaat and enter ihram from there, because the Prophet 
      (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said, when he defined the 
      miqaats: “And these meeqaats are for the people at those very places, and 
      besides them for those who come through those places with the intention of 
      performing Hajj and 'Umrah.” 

    And Allah is the source of strength. May Allaah send 
    blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions. 
    End quote. 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Razzaaq al-‘Afeefi, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan