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Pulitzer Prize, Basic nonfiction, 2016 In a thrilling remarkable narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces the way the tension of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote control Jordanian jail and distributed with the unwitting help of two American presidents. When Jordan granted amnesty to several political prisoners in 1999, it little understood that included in this was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of the Islamist motion bent on dominating the center East. In African american Flags, an unprecedented bank account of the climb of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows the way the zeal of this one man and the strategic problems of Presidents Bush and Obama resulted in the banner of ISIS being brought up over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. Zarqawi started by directing terror problems from a base in Northern Iraq, but it was the North american invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a huge insurgency. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, US representatives spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause. Their influx of brutal beheadings and suicide bombings persisted until North american and Jordanian cleverness discovered signs that resulted in a lethal airstrike on Zarqawi's hideout in 2006. His motion, however, endured. First getting in touch with themselves al-Qaeda in Iraq then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, his enthusiasts searched for refuge in ungoverned pouches on the Iraq-Syria boundary. When the Syrian civil warfare broke out in 2011, so that the US generally stood by, ISIS seized its chance to go after Zarqawi's imagine an ultraconservative Islamic caliphate. Pulling on high-level usage of CIA and Jordanian resources, Warrick weaves moment-by-moment functional details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and mind of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried out desperately to avoid it. African american Flags is a definitive background that uncovers the long arc of today's most dangerous extremist risk.

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