Black Flags
The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick
Discover the origins of ISIS in "Black Flags" - the gripping Pulitzer Prize-winning account by Joby Warrick. Follow the rise of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind whose movements were inadvertently spurred by Presidents Bush and Obama. Despite a lethal airstrike in 2006, his ultra-conservative Islamist followers sought refuge in unstable territories, leading to the establishment of the Islamic State. With unprecedented access to CIA and Jordanian sources, this definitive history unveils the long arc of today's most dangerous extremist threat.
Publish Date
2015-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
2015-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 2016
Goodreads Rating
4.32
ISBN
9780804168939
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2021-09-10T15:55:18.000Z
THREAD: 9/11 changed my entire life. I'm sure it's the same for everyone. Reckoning with those changes even 20 years on is difficult
Here are some of the books over the last 2 decades which helped me make sense of everything – source2015-10-06T21:59:59.000Z
I hope presidential candidates are reading this book- @JobyWarrick bio of Abu Musab Zarqawi-wish it were fiction – source