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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... Zarqawi , arrived in Qandahar , Afghanistan , seeking an audience with al- Qaeda's leaders . The young Zarqawi wanted to foment revolution in the Fertile Crescent , the land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean through Iraq . Zarqawi ...
... Zarqawi's extreme views, Sayf recommended his bosses support the Jordanian hothead because they had so few Palestinian or Jordanian allies. They consented but would not invite Zarqawi to join al-Qaeda; he would have refused anyway ...
... Zarqawi's outfit . After the fall of the Taliban , Zarqawi and Sayf fled Afghanistan for Iran . There they discussed where Zarqawi should go next . After “ long study and deliberation , " Sayf later wrote , Zarqawi's group decided to ...
... Zarqawi's group had not pulled off the attack alone. It had help from former security officers in Saddam Hussein's government, casualties of the Bush administration's purge of Saddam party loyalists. They, like other disenfranchised ...
... Zarqawi offered to swear allegiance to them , joining his group to theirs : " If you agree with us on it , if you adopt it as a program and path , and if you are convinced of the idea of fighting the sects of apostasy , we will be your ...
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