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Original Title:	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
ISBN:	0385538227 (ISBN13: 9780385538220)
Characters:	Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2016)

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS ebook | Pages: 368 pages

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising its banner across Iraq and Syria spread from a remote Jordanian prison with the unwitting aid of American military intervention.

     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.


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Title	:	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Author	:	Joby Warrick
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	September 29th 2015 by Doubleday
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Politics. War. Religion. Terrorism. Islam

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A thoroughly depressing read for reasons that are all too obvious, but I wanted to improve my understanding of this loathsome organisation.Despite the upsetting subject matter, this is an absolutely engrossing read, with extensive first hand testimony from former U.S. diplomats, CIA operatives, staff of the Jordanian intelligence service, and Sunni Iraqi tribal leaders who have alternately supported and fought the Islamists. It was depressing to read about how, prior to the Iraq invasion, the

An unique and excellent insight in the origins of ISIS, its subsequent rise and American incompetenceJoby Warrick is a reporter for The Washington Post and a Pullitzer Price winner for his journalism about the Middle East. In this book he traces the origins of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) by describing the main personalities behind the rise, the Jordanian Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi (the founding father) and his successor Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi, who succeeded in establishing the ISIS

I read this book on ISIS, so I'm kind of an expert now. If you need me at your dinner parties for pedantic insight into the Middle East, hit me up.

Lets be real here, I was pretty woefully ignorant about a lot of the information in this book. I understood the basic concept of the organizations and major players here, but that was about it. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, ISIS, ISIL, the Islamic State how do they relate to each other? Do they even all relate? For the rest of the review, Ill refer to the group as ISIS for reasons discussed here and here. This book is epically readable like a

Warrick, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, explores the origins of ISIS. Beginning in the 1990s he chronicles the rise of Zarqawi and al-Qaeda in Iraq and ends with the Syrian war and the rise of Baghdadi and ISIS. Warrick is a skilled writer making his account very readable and easy to digest. Most of us will remember the major events described. Warrick adds value by connecting them, filling in the gaps, giving us a continuous narrative. We see the stunning appearance of ISIS running rampant

Excellent history on the rise of ISIS and the US involvement in Iraq. Terrific narrator for the audiobook.5 out of 5 stars.

I expected more from this book, when I read it. It it bring anything new about Isis.