Abstract
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, 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. Read More: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Flags-Rise-Joby-Warrick/dp/0385538219/ref=sr...
Bio
Joby Warrick is a best-selling author and a national reporter for The Washington Post. A Pulitzer Prize winner, he served for 19 years with the Post’s national and investigative staffs, focusing primarily on intelligence, diplomacy and security in the Middle East and South Asia. His first book, “The Triple Agent” (Doubleday, 2011), is the true story of the Jordanian-born al-Qaeda spy who led the CIA into a deadly trap at Khost, Afghanistan, in 2009, in the agency’s worst disaster in a quarter-century. The acclaimed non-fiction work was hailed by The Economist as a “chilling tale, told with skill and verve,” and by the Los Angeles Times as a “gripping a true-life spy saga.” Warrick’s second book, “Black Flags” (Doubleday, September 2015), chronicles the rise of the terrorist organization commonly known as ISIS.
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