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Isis, February 2015
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Inside the Army of Terror
Regan Books
February 2015
On Sale: February 17, 2015
288 pages ISBN: 1941393578 EAN: 9781941393574 Kindle: B00SW8BLJ6 Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History | Non-Fiction Political
A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous
terrorist group. Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, along with
other fledgling terrorist groups, as a “jayvee squad”
compared to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive
territories in both countries and promising to create a vast
new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of
Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist
Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how
these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated
Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international
volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced
videos and have conquered territory equal to the size of
Great Britain. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
founder of ISIS’s first incarnation as “al-Qaeda in Iraq,”
Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are—from their
elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam
Baathists in their ranks—where they come from, how the
movement has attracted both local and global support, and
where their financing comes from. Political and military maneuvering by the United States,
Iraq, Iran, and Syria have all fueled ISIS’s astonishing and
explosive expansion. Drawing on original interviews with
former US military officials and current ISIS fighters, the
authors also reveal the internecine struggles within the
movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite
Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the
region. Just like the one the US thought it had stopped in 2011 in
Iraq. Past is prologue and America’s legacy in the Middle
East is sowing a new generation of terror.
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