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ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror - Michael Weiss, Lois Hassan
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
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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... show more
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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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781941393574 (1941393578)
ASIN: 1941393578
Publisher: Regan Arts.
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it
2.0 ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
I got this book from one of Audibles 2 for 1 sales. The book is worth it at half price, but does suffer greatly from a fault of telling the story through mostly the eyes of a journalist ("some say the earth is center of the solar system while others such a Galileo argue from a different perspective"...
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XOX rated it
0.0 ISIS should scare the daylight out of normal human beings
ISIS is not only Islamic, it might also shared with all other Islamic religious the basic understanding of Islam. What ISIS revealed to all of us, is that when people are religious and taken hold of Islam as ideal, then all hell break loose, and everyone die. In the core of ISIS, is the teaching...
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