Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

â‚¬Å“A Best Book of 2015â‚¬Ââ‚¬"The New York Times, The Washington Post,Â People Magazine,Â San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews

In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby WarrickÂ traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.
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Â Â Â When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab 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, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby WarrickÂ 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.
Â Â Â 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. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, U.S. officials inadvertently spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause. Their wave of brutal beheadings and suicide bombings persisted until American and Jordanian intelligence discovered clues that led to a lethal airstrike on Zarqawiâ‚¬s hideout in 2006.
Â Â Â His movement, however, endured. First calling themselves al-Qaeda in Iraq, then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, his followers sought refuge in unstable, ungoverned pockets on the Iraq-Syria border. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, and as the U.S. largely stood by, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawiâ‚¬s dream of an ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate.
Â Â Â Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of todayâ‚¬s most dangerous extremist threat.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
PartNumber 8 Pages Of Photographs
Color Grey
Height 9.6
Length 6.5
Weight 1.60055602212
Width 1.1
ReleaseDate 2015-09-29
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Doubleday
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	8 Pages Of Photographs
Color	Grey
Height	9.6
Length	6.5
Weight	1.60055602212
Width	1.1
ReleaseDate	2015-09-29
NumberOfItems	1

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

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