Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (USED)

Description: Product Description : Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTIONA Best Book of 2015The New York Times The Washington Post People Magazine San Francisco Chronicle Kansas City Star and Kirkus ReviewsIn a thrilling dramatic narrative awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Joby Warrick 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 presidentsWhen the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999 it little realized that among them was Abu Musab alZarqawi a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East In Black Flags an unprecedented characterdriven account of the rise of ISIS Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter 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 IraqZarqawi 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 US officials inadvertently spurred likeminded 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 Zarqawis hideout in 2006His movement however endured First calling themselves alQaeda in Iraq then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS his followers sought refuge in unstable ungoverned pockets on the IraqSyria border When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 and as the US largely stood by ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawis dream of an ultraconservative Islamic caliphateDrawing on unique highlevel access to CIA and Jordanian sources Warrick weaves gripping momentbymoment 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 todays most dangerous extremist threat( it is an used product )

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