作者：JobyWarrick
出版社：Doubleday
副标题：TheRiseofISIS
出版年：2015-9-29
页数：368
定价：USD28.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780385538213
内容简介
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“A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews
In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.
When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man and the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama led to the banner of ISIS being raised over huge swaths of Syria and Iraq.
Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the American invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam and bin Laden, U.S. officials inadvertently spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause. Their wave of brutal beheadings and suicide bombings persisted until American and Jordanian intelligence discovered clues that led to a lethal airstrike on Zarqawi’s hideout in 2006.
His movement, however, endured. First calling themselves al-Qaeda in Iraq, then Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, his followers sought refuge in unstable, ungoverned pockets on the Iraq-Syria border. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, and as the U.S. largely stood by, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawi’s dream of an ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate.
Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.
作者简介
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JOBY WARRICK has been a reporter for The Washington Post since 1996. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, and the author of The Triple Agent.
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非常有价值的“谈资书”。讲ISIS的前世今生，风云变幻大时代之下的个人命运。作者是Plitzer Prize Winner，任职Washington Post多年，功力深厚。这本书看的我挺难过的，所以拖拖拉拉看了很长时间。其间又正好在读Hilary Clinton的Hard Choices，又看了Munich，心情不能更沉重。关于历史，在我们努力寻找“为什么”之后，都还只落到一句“what if”…
了解伊斯兰国的起源、发展和壮大，及其原因，这本书提供了一个非常全面和深入的调查。尤其宝贵的是作者选取的调查对象和他们的证词，从CIA调查员、美军军官、到约旦国王、约旦反恐探长，甚至还有众多伊斯兰组织成员以及创始者之一。作者的文笔精彩，作品结构紧凑时时扣人心弦，留给读者很多问题待以思考。
拖了好久 讲Zarquawi的写得很好
原来伊拉克战争是美国为了在911后坚定政治立场和民心在没有证据表明萨达姆政府与基地组织有联系时而贸然开始的，战争前为了保证在伊拉克境内有明确的恐怖组织不去端掉当时已经触手可得的Ansar al-Islam和在其中藏身和扩大势力的扎卡维，为后来埋下炸弹…战后对伊拉克重建毫无计划，在伊拉克打砸掠夺造成民众不信任，以及解散Baath党导致很多有经验有人脉的军队领导加入扎卡维，真是一系列错误。第二部分…
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