5/19/2023 0 Comments Black Flags by Joby Warrick![]() ![]() They apparently had some unwitting help from a few other people including the Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations. Zarqawi was joined by a small group of radical Islamic thugs, the ousted leaders and military from the old regime in Iraq which the US (in all its wisdom) simply removed when they took out Saddam Hussein. This is the story of how Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian and veteran of the battles in Afghanistan, came to form the now infamous ISIS, a group of many thousands bent on the destruction of the old corrupt regimes in the Middle East and the West in general, specifically Israel, Europe and the US. ![]() Good thinking – there’s a lot of material here, a lot of names, places and events – it’s an overview of sorts. I had to read the Prologue twice – I listened, then bought the Kindle version and started over. I’ve not read all that much about ISIS so I really need a bit of a background in order to catch up and this felt like it was the right book for it – where did Zarqawi come from and how did it all come to what we have today? ![]() So picking up that award brought it to the top – and here we are.Īctually, the book was coming along so nicely I wanted a bit more – so I got the Kindle version where there are maps and lists of characters etc. ![]() This looked interesting and was on my wish list even before it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. ![]()
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