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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
    2017-03-08  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    In 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 presidents.

    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,” a character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter 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 areas of Syria and Iraq.

    Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the American invasion in 2003 that helped him to become the head of a vast insurgency*. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, U.S. officials spurred like-minded 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 Zarqawi’s hideout* in 2006. His movement, however, stayed. First calling themselves al-Qaida in Iraq, then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, his followers gathered in the unstable, ungoverned parts on the Iraq-Syria border. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, and as the United States largely stood by, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawi’s dream of an ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate.

    (SD-Agencies)

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