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  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: REGAN ARTS - BOOKS (19 Feb. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1941393578
  • ISBN-13: 978-1941393574
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.3 x 21 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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"The authors of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, published this month in the US, spoke to dozens of fighters and members of the group to understand its allure and how it justifies its brutal tactics." -- The Asian Age

"Weiss and Hassan offer the fuller and more convincing account. They trace the life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian petty criminal who missed the jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but went on to start his own much bloodier one against America in Iraq." --The Economist

"Tribal businesses were disrupted or taken over by those seeking their own monopoly on smuggling, and [ISIS] protected its confiscated interest with a mafia s thuggish zeal. It justified killing on the basis of market competition, write Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan in ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror." -- Middle East Eye

" Weiss and Hassan have produced a detailed and readable book... The authors provide useful insights into Isis governance a combination of divide-and-rule, indoctrination and fear and are well placed for the task." -- The Guardian

"A witches brew of pitiless civil war and a flailing tyrant have given birth to Isis. If you want to understand how this calamity has come about, these concise and informative books provide an essential grounding." - The Independent

"Syrian researcher Hassan Hassan and the European Council on Foreign Relations Senior Policy Fellow Julien Barnes-Dacy discuss the challenges and threats posed by ISIS." - --ECFR Radio

About the Author

Michael Weiss is a columnist for Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast and NOW Lebanon. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Modern Russia where he is the editor-in-chief of The Interpreter, an online translation journal.

Hassan Hassan is an analyst at the Delma Institute, a research centre in Abu Dhabi, and a columnist for The National newspaper. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy and The New York Times.

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2.0 out of 5 starsVery frustrating...
By Philip on 2 Aug. 2015
Format: Paperback
I shall probably edit this review as I'm still reading the book. I've reached chpt 10. My original impression of confused writing and editing remains. Firstly a plethora of names and details...but no index...! Fundamental omission. Secondly no maps... for a book that describes the geography of events in great detail this is another fundamental omission. Thirdly it veers between the factual and the sensational. Fourthly there is very little overview of the situation. Its almost entirely almost anecdotal as if even the authors themselves are struggling to understand the phenomena they are describing. No historical context (Sunni-Shia 1300 year split?). Always lots of name, no index and are we supposed to remember all these details as we plough through?
Patrick Cockburn's Intro is much better written. The reader gets a decent overview of things. I guess I'm looking for a description of ISIS as part of the overall context in the ME; Islamic Resurgence, Sunni-Shia struggle, extremely complex dynamics that it seems most intel agencies are themselves struggling with. I shall have to go elsewhere for these. Cockburn's for now is the most straightforward and comprehensible... I gave it a 3 star initially. I'm downgrading to 2 because I'm not getting anything from it at all. 2 for their effort.
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1.0 out of 5 starsMissing lots of big picture information - got lost in the weeds
By Coldstream on 22 Aug. 2015
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This is a curious book. It contains some good information about the inner workings of ISIS though fails to draw the parallels with the Taliban and Al Shabab which had grown district by district in a post conflict environment to dominate nationally in Afghanistan and Somalia respectively.
However where this book really fails is through its distortions about the reasons for the rise of ISIS and its external supporters/funders. For example, there is no mention or statistics of continuous Sunni-on-Shia violence through out the post-2003 period including the period of Sahwa (refer to Iraq Body Count project). There is no mention of support of ISIS either directly or indirectly by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE in the period prior to fall of Mosul and the role of Prince Bandar – Intelligence minister of Saudi Arabia and arch neo-con- in support of jihadis (refer to VP Biden’s speech to US Naval College in 2014). No mention is made of the support role of Turkey in maintaining supply lines and freedom of movement across her borders –especially with Syria (witness Turkey’s behavior throughout siege of Kobani and recent developments vs PKK). Instead curiously this book tries to insinuate that Iran is somehow responsible for the rise of ISIS. At its heart this book fails to connects the dots that (a) if ISIS leadership are mainly Saddam Hussain’s Baathists ex-army officers, then there would be no reconciliation with an Iraqi government lead by majority Shia no matter who lead it – Jaafari, Malliki, Alawi or Badawi, and (b) this majority Shia government is the first time Sunni’s have lost power in Iraq since 700AD and Sunni elites just can not countenance a political role commensurate with their share of the population (20%).Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsSome interest to be found in the background stories of ...
By Amazon Customer on 27 Aug. 2015
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Some interest to be found in the background stories of key Takfiri players but completely outweighed by an inexcusably agenda-riven analysis that seems to pin all the blame on Assad and Iran against all logic and serious evidence.
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2.0 out of 5 starsBadly presented - buy the Jessica Stern & JM Berger book instead
By Sir on 15 May 2015
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As with many reviewers, I found this book frustrating - I got the impression that it had been rushed into print before it was finished. There are comprehensive notes at the back but these are not referenced to the text they are supposed to amplify and are therefore useless.
The many abbreviations are often not explained. Similarly, Arabic words are sometimes used with no translation - clearly a glossary would help. And how the author can consider a conflict spreading over several countries and in many towns without providing a map is beyond me!
The random, inappropriate use of the apostrophe is probably due to the author's country of origin, but to educated eyes, just looks sloppy.
Also I didn't like phrases like "savvy politicking", "ouster", "ship-jump",or "uptick" It is not redeemed by the use of "posh" words seldom found in everyday parlance; when was the last time anyone used the word "epiphenomena"? There are also several spelling mistakes and speaking as one involved in the conflict in 2007, I can spot a couple of factual errors.
There is huge reliance on quoting a multitude of random interviewees, whereas had the author taken a pace backward and produced a considered assessment of these sources, the reader would have been much better informed; It is possible that the author was not capable of this & cheaply attempted to impress the reader with other aspects. In short, the information is there, badly presented; be prepared to be irritated. I am reading "ISIS, the State of Terror by Stern & Berger" which is a far superior book. Buy this instead!
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5.0 out of 5 starsComprehensive account of ISIS creation
By Helpful Advice on 18 Feb. 2015
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`Inside the Army of Terror' written by US journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian political analyst Hassan Hassan is the most seriously made book about ISIS, that gives a very comprehensive picture of the causes that have provoked the creation of this by the international community unrecognized, but very real state.

More than eleven years after the United States invaded Iraq, a deadly insurgency adept at multiple forms of warfare has proved resilient, adaptable, and resolved to carry on fighting. A legacy of both Saddam and al-Zarqawi, ISIS has excelled at couching its struggle in world-historical terms. It has promised both death and a return to the ancient glories of Islam. Thousands have lined up to join it, and even more have already fallen victim to it.

"The army of terror will be with us indefinitely" - the authors are saying while describing in detail how ISIS was established, taking over great part of Iraq and Syria with a goal to establish new Muslim caliphate based on Sharia law. Weiss and Hassan gave an overview how it was possible for almost completely destroyed Iraqi extremists to evolve in tempting company to which many people brought up in the West rushed to join, furthermore acting as role models while demonstrating their brutality.

The overall image that was presented by the book is certainly not optimistic, proving how serious danger ISIS actually is, something that threatens everything that Western civilization is. Still, authors avoided their book to be story seen only from one side, because on its pages there are numerous excerpts of conversations with both Western people and ISIS fighters.Read more ›
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