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    Black flags : the rise of ISIS / Joby Warrick.
    by Warrick, Joby
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    Doubleday, 2015.
    Call #:956.054 W295b
    Subjects
  • Zarqāwī, Abū Muṣʻab, 1966-2006.
    •  
  • Baghdādī, Abū Bakr al- (Ibrahim Awad al-Badri)
    •  
  • IS (Organization)
    •  
  • Islamic fundamentalism -- Syria.
    •  
  • Islamic fundamentalism -- Iraq.
    •  
  • Islamic fundamentalism -- Middle East.
    •  
  • Religious fanaticism -- Middle East.
    •  
  • Jihad -- History -- 21st century.
    •  
  • Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
    •  
  • Terrorism -- Syria.
    •  
  • Terrorism -- Iraq.
    •  
  • Terrorism -- Middle East.
    •  
  • Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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  • Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
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  • Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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  • Middle East -- 21st century.
    • ISBN: 
    9780385538213 (hc.)
    0385538219 (hc)
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Description: 
    xvii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-335) and index.
    Summary: 
    "When he succeeded his father in 1999, King Abdullah of Jordan released a batch of political prisoners in the hopes of smoothing his transition to power. Little did he know that among those released was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man who would go on to become a terrorist mastermind too dangerous even for al-Qaeda and give rise to an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. Zarqawi began by directing hotel bombings and assassinations in Jordan from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the American invasion of that country in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency. By identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, the CIA inadvertently created a monster. Like-minded radicals saw him as a hero resisting the infidel occupiers and rallied to his cause. Their wave of brutal beheadings and suicide bombings continued for years until Jordanian intelligence provided the Americans with the crucial intelligence needed to eliminate Zarqawi in a 2006 airstrike. But his movement endured, first called al-Qaeda in Iraq, then renamed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, seeking refuge in unstable, ungoverned pockets on the Iraq-Syria border. And as the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawi's dream of a sweeping, ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate. Drawing on unique access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Joby Warrick weaves together heart-pounding, moment-by-moment operational details with overarching historical perspectives to reveal the long trajectory of today's most dangerous Islamic extremist threat"--Provided by publisher.
    Awards: 
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, 2016.
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