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The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising Paperback – 2014

by Patrick Cockburn (Author)

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How could things have gone so badly wrong? Writing in these pages with customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis.

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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: OR Books; 1st edition (2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939293596
ISBN-13: 978-1939293596
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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A Complex and Comprehensive Guide for the Perplexed

By Deborah H. Maccoby on October 25, 2014

Format: Paperback

The fall of Mosul, Iraq's northern capital, to ISIS on June 10th, 2014 came as a shock to most people in the West. Iraq had been out of the news for some time. Suddenly and inexplicably, as it seemed to most of us in the West, the Iraqi army "with 350,000 soldiers on which 41.6 billion dollars had been spent since 2011" was defeated by a tiny unknown group of "as few as 1,300 fighters.....one of the great military debacles in history", as Patrick Cockburn writes. ISIS - "an al-Qaida-type of the greatest ferocity and religious bigotry", as Cockburn says, went on "to claim the creation of a Sunni caliphate spanning much of Iraq and Syria."

Cockburn explains that the lack of Western knowledge about the rise of ISIS and other jihadi groups occurred because a)most foreign journalists were no longer going to Iraq, for fear of being kidnapped and murdered; b) Western governments didn't want to acknowledge the failure of the much-vaunted War on Terror.

At the time of the fall of Mosul, Cockburn was working on an early draft of this book: "a description of the growing power of jihadi movements similar to al-Qa'ida in northern Syria and Iraq, the importance of which seemed to me to have been missed by Western politicians, the media and the public." In 2013 he had named the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as "Man of the Year". Even he was shocked by the ease with which Mosul was conquered; but his publishers, Or Books, were able to rush out "The Jihadis Return", as Iraq suddenly returned to the top news headlines.

Cockburn points out that, despite the spectacular coup of 9/11, at the time al-Qaida was a "small, generally ineffectual organisation". Initially the US and British attack on Afghanistan seemed to have been successful in suppressing jihadism.Read more ›

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Enlightening! Very enlightening!

By T. Mckee on November 12, 2014

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Enlightening! Very enlightening !

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Cockburn should be ashamed of himself

By John Reimann on January 8, 2015

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Cockburn rushed this little (140 pages double spaced on small sized paper) book into print when ISIS crashed into the scene later last year. The book is very short on facts and contains very little that is new or couldn't be found in the mass media. There is one section on corruption in the Iraqi military that is useful, but that's about all. That's the only reason is merits a second star. Cockburn should be ashamed of himself for simply trying to take advantage of a new market (information on ISIS.) Save your money.