Black flags, the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick
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Black flags, the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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contains biographical information
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Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Black flags
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Joby Warrick
Sub title
the rise of ISIS
Summary
When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realised that among them was Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama led to the banner of ISIS being raised over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the American invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency
Target audience
adult
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Author
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