The Mastermind Behind ISIS

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 30, 2015

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick discusses the origin story of ISIS, focusing heavily on the life and death of jihadi leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Drawing on high-level CIA and Jordanian sources, his new book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS weaves moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats, spies, generals, and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than Al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. 

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