The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateMacmillan + ORM, 2015 M09 22 - 258 pages Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen--William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. |
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... Masri ( aka Abu Hamza al - Muhajir ) , the head of al - Qaeda in Iraq after Zarqawi and later the founder of the Islamic State , had proclaimed his undying loyalty to Mullah Omar as “ commander of the faithful ” and to Bin Laden as the ...
... Masri, assured his bosses that the “commander of the faithful,” Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, had pledged an oath of allegiance to Bin Laden in front of the jihadist brothers in Iraq. They did not announce it publicly “due to some political ...
... Masri pledged his allegiance to the shadowy “ commander of the faithful , ” Abu Umar al- Baghdadi , announced the dissolution of al - Qaeda , and reassigned all its fighters to the Islamic State of Iraq . “ All of them have pledged ...
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