000 04280cam a2200517 i 4500
001 ocn910826856
003 OCoLC
005 20251028093407.0
008 150605s2015 nyuabf b 001 0beng
010 _a 2015020949
035 _a(Sirsi) i9780385538213
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dYDX
_dYDXCP
_dBTCTA
_dBDX
_dGK8
_dAZT
_dJSE
_dOCLCF
_dBUR
_dIH9
_dABG
_dON8
_dVP@
_dCDX
_dMOF
_dDGU
_dKUA
_dCHVBK
_dTOH
_dUIN
_dOCLCQ
_dOCLCO
_dNLGGC
_dIAK
_dOCLCQ
_dOCL
_dKEC
_dNDS
_dVF$
019 _a899332200
_a915740484
_a922677376
020 _a9780385538213
_q(hardcover)
020 _a0385538219
_q(hardcover)
020 _z9780385538220
035 _a(OCoLC)910826856
_z(OCoLC)899332200
_z(OCoLC)915740484
_z(OCoLC)922677376
042 _apcc
043 _aaw-----
050 0 0 _aHV 6433 .I722
_bI8593 2015
049 _aVF$A
100 1 _aWarrick, Joby.
245 1 0 _aBlack flags :
_bthe rise of ISIS /
_cJoby Warrick.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bDoubleday,
_c2015
264 4 _c2015
300 _axvii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, map ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 320-335) and index.
505 0 _aList of principal characters -- Map of key locations -- "What kind of person can command with only his eyes?" -- "Here was a real leader" -- "A problem like that always comes back" -- "The time for training is over" -- "I did it for al-Qaeda and for Zarqawi" -- "This war is going to happen" -- "Now his fame would extend throughout the Arab world" -- "No longer a victory" -- "So you guys think this is an insurgency?" -- "Revolting is exactly what we want" -- "It would surpass anything al-Qaeda did" -- "The sheikh of the slaughterers" -- "It's hopeless there" -- "Are you going to get him?" -- "This is our 9/11" -- "Your end is close" -- "The people want to topple the regime!" -- "Where is this Islamic State of Iraq that you're talking about?" -- "This is the state for which Zarqawi paved the way" -- "The mood music started to change" -- "There was no more hope after that" -- "This is a tribal revolution."
520 _aWhen he succeeded his father in 1952, 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 operational details with overarching historical perspectives to reveal the long trajectory of today's most dangerous Islamic extremist threat.
586 _aPulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2016
600 1 0 _aZarqawi, Abu Mu??ab,
_d1966-2006.
610 2 0 _aIS (Organization)
650 0 _aTerrorism
_zIraq.
650 0 _aTerrorism
_zMiddle East.
650 0 _aTerrorism
_xReligious aspects
_xIslam.
650 0 _aIslamic fundamentalism.
651 0 _aMiddle East
_xPolitics and government
_y21st century.
610 2 4 _aIS (Organization)
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft
994 _aC0
_bVF$
999 _c136519
_d136519