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.
“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.
“人弹”、爆炸案、暗杀等一系列的恐怖事件将中东这片“燎原”烧起了熊熊烈火。《黑旗:ISIS的崛起》将走进扎卡维、伊斯兰国的世界。 作者乔比•沃里克,美国作家,中东问题资深记者,本书曾获得普利策奖非虚构类作品奖。《黑旗:ISIS的崛起》主要讲述了扎卡维的“成长”,一...
评分最近看了一部美剧《国土安全》(Homeland),主题是反恐,还去买了一本拿了普利策奖的的纪实调查《黑旗:ISIS的崛起》,因为封面的扎卡维乍看之下实在太像《国土安全》第一季里面的恐怖分子头目Abu Nazir了,一下子激起了我浓厚的兴趣(后来才发现不像)。 《国土安全》中的...
评分 评分把这几年isis的大事都串起来说了一遍 一直到扎卡维死之前都是精彩 后面就有些看不动
评分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。
评分拖了好久 讲Zarquawi的写得很好
评分4.5。基本上每一章都会有那么几刻让你感慨“假如当初没有……”,然而这并没有意义。无数不可逆的missteps组成了人类の悲剧。
评分对ISIS崛起的近期历史梳理非常清晰,尤其对其中关键人物(al-Zarqawi, Abdullah II of Jordan, Bashar Al-Assad等等)的背景和在历史关键点中起到的作用有重点阐述,对美国的第二次伊拉克战争以及阿拉伯之春后的叙利亚内战也有详细分析,然而对大的历史和国际环境对ISIS的作用着墨不足,是一个缺陷。
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