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The Islamic State: ...The Completed Story Since 1989
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9781532701382
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9781532701382
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The Islamic State: ...The Completed Story Since 1989
$17.32
On a cold and blustery evening in December 1989, Huthaifa Azzam, the teenage son of the legendary Jordanian-Palestinian mujahideen leader Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went to the airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, to welcome a group of young men. All were new recruits, largely from Jordan, and they had come to fight in a fratricidal civil war in neighboring Afghanistan-an outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there. The men were scruffy, Huthaifa mused as he greeted them, and seemed hardly in battle-ready form. Some had just been released from prison; others were professors and sheikhs. None of them would prove worth remembering-except for a relatively short, squat man named Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalaylah. He would later rename himself Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.Once one of the most wanted men in the world, for whose arrest the United States offered a $25 million reward, al-Zarqawi was a notoriously enigmatic figure-a man who was everywhere yet nowhere.
Author: Brad Power |
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
Publication Date: Apr 01, 2016 |
Number of Pages: 282 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 1532701381 |
ISBN-13: 9781532701382 |