Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Weiss, Michael (Michael Douglas), author.

Title Isis : inside the army of terror / Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Regan Arts, [2015]

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  956.054 W436i 2015    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition First Regan Arts paperback edition.
Description xvi, 270 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267).
Summary "How did a group of religious fanatics, clad in black pajamas and armed to the teeth, manage to carve out a violent, fundamentalist "Islamic state" in wide swaths of Syria and Iraq? How did the widely celebrated revolution against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad descend into a movement led by a psychopathically violent band of jihadists dedicated to the destruction of America? And just who are these brutal Islamic militants--many speaking unaccented English and holding European passports--beheading Western hostages in slickly produced videos? In Isis: Inside the Army of Terror, Syrian journalist Hassan Hassan and American analyst Michael Weiss explain how the terrorists of ISIS evolved from a nearly defeated insurgent group into a jihadi army--armed with American military hardware and the capability to administer a functioning state. Weiss and Hassan, who have both been on the frontlines of the Syrian revolution, have interviewed dozens of experts, American military and intelligence officials, and ISIS fighters to paint the first comprehensive picture of the rise and expansion of America's most formidable terrorist enemy. ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror is destined to become the standard text on a terror group that, unfortunately, shows no signs of going away"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Founding father : Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's jihad -- 2. Sheikh of the slaughterers : Al-Zarqawi and Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- 3. The management of savagery : birth of the Islamic State of Iraq -- 4. Agents of chaos : Iran and Al-Qaeda -- 5. The awakening : Iraqis turn on ISI -- 6. Withdrawal symptoms : ISI and Maliki wait out the United States -- 7. Assad's proxy : Syria and Al-Qaeda -- 8. Rebirth : ISI under Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi -- 9. Revolution betrayed : jihad comes to Syria -- 10. Converts and "five-star jihadists" : profiles of ISIS fighters -- 11. From Twitter to Dabiq : recruiting the new mujahidin -- 12. Divorce : Al-Qaeda splits from ISIS -- 13. Shakedown of the sheikhs : ISIS co-opts the tribes -- 14. Al-Dawla : the Islamic "state" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Subject IS (Organization)
Terrorists -- Iraq.
Terrorists -- Syria.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Terrorism -- Middle East.
IS (Organization) (OCoLC)fst01914325
Terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01148101
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam. (OCoLC)fst01148138
Terrorists. (OCoLC)fst01148160
Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
Syria. (OCoLC)fst01208757
Added Author Hassan, Hassan, 1982- author.
ISBN 9781941393574 (softcover)
1941393578 (softcover)
Standard No. 9781941393574 51400

 
    
Available items only