Like-minded radicals saw him as a hero resisting the infidel occupiers and rallied to his cause. By identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, the CIA inadvertently created a monster. 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. 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. When he succeeded his father in 1999, King Abdullah of Jordan released a batch of political prisoners in the hopes of smoothing his transition to power. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising its banner across Iraq and Syria spread from a remote Jordanian prison with the unwitting aid of American military intervention. You can read this before Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS written by Joby Warrick which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
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