Black Flags

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'A seminal book' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'An invaluable guide to an^uhfolding tragedy that must be understood before it can be ended' LAWRENCE WRIGHT
'the most deeply reported and well-written « account we have about ISIS and its terrorist army' - PETER BERGEN ^^
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 soon to be the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East.
\n Black Flags, Soby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Western governments led to the banner of the so-called Islamic State being raised over "r-.L huge swathes of Syria and Iraq.'
Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the allied invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head
of a vast insurgency. By falsely identifying him as thé link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'A seminal book' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'An invaluable guide to an^uhfolding tragedy that must be understood before it can be ended' LAWRENCE WRIGHT
'the most deeply reported and well-written « account we have about ISIS and its terrorist army' - PETER BERGEN ^^
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 soon to be the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East.
\n Black Flags, Soby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Western governments led to the banner of the so-called Islamic State being raised over "r-.L huge swathes of Syria and Iraq.'
Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the allied invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head
of a vast insurgency. By falsely identifying him as thé link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, Western officials inadvertently spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause.
Drawing on high-level access to global intelligence sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the 5 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 today's most dangerous extremist threat. Vissza