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Resist the urge to go fetal

March 3, 2016 by expandingbookshelf Leave a Comment

He was a wannabe gangster and a high school dropout who got tattoos, drank and smoked, and sold drugs on the streets of Jordan. His mother was so concerned, she sent him to Muslim self-help classes. There, Ahmad Fadil found a new path. By the time he was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2006, Fadil-by then known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi- had lead a new terrorist insurgency in Iraq and Jordan that resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths. That group was ISIS. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Afghanistan, Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, Iraq, Joby Warrick, Jordan, Middle East, Syria, terrorism

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:34 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Afghanistan, Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, Iraq, Joby Warrick, Jordan, Middle East, Syria, terrorism ·
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