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The killing game : martyrdom, murder and the lure of ISIS / by Bourrie, Mark,1957-author.; Berger, J. M.(John M.),1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Here is an examination of the lives of two men, framed by the war that lured them from comfortable, ordinary lives in a quiet corner of Ontario. Why were both of these men radicalized - one by the most extreme form of Islam, the other by a desire to fight it? Why did they travel to the most dangerous part of the world to fight against each other as members of foreign armies? Bourrie delves into the lives of these two young men as a framing device to examine what draws young men and women to join violent social/political movements. It looks at the psychology of young men and women today and the propaganda used by all sides in the Middle East conflicts, as well as the security laws and the political initiatives that have been designed to stop Canadians from being radicalized. This book also investigates what it is that draws young people to join and fight for causes as different as the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s and the Red Brigades of the 1970s, but with an emphasis on the attraction of ISIS and radical Islam in our own time.
Subjects: ISIS (Organization); Jihad.; Terrorism; Terrorism; Terrorists; Terrorists;
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The spymaster of Baghdad : a true story of bravery, family, and patriotism in the battle against ISIS / by Coker, Margaret,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS"--
Subjects: Iraq. Iraqi National Intelligence Service. al-Suqour.; ISIS (Organization); Espionage; Intelligence service; Spies; Terrorism;
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Hunting season : James Foley, ISIS, and the kidnapping campaign that started a war / by Harkin, James,1971-author.;
Subjects: Foley, James.; IS (Organization); Kidnapping; Kidnapping; Terrorism; Terrorism; Terrorism;
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Defeating ISIS : who they are, how they fight, what they believe / by Nance, Malcolm W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: IS (Organization); Terrorism; Terrorism; Violence;
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The girl who beat ISIS : Farida's story / by Khalaf, Farida,author.; Hoffman, Andrea C.,author.; Bulloch, Jamie,translator.;
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. This is the story of what happened to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, and the markets where ISIS sold their female prisoners like cattle.
Subjects: Khalaf, Farida; IS (Organization); Yezidi women; Yezidis; Terrorism; Abduction; Escaped prisoners of war;
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The ISIS apocalypse : the history, strategy, and doomsday vision of the Islamic State / by McCants, William Faizi,1975-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: IS (Organization); Terrorism; Terrorism; Jihad.; Strategy.; End of the world; Political messianism;
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Fighting ISIS : how one ordinary Brit went to war - a gripping true story / by Locks, Tim,author.;
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldnt sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and a bouncer, he knew how to handle himself -- and had a huge protective streak. He sold his house to raise money, put himself through arms training and bought his equipment on eBay.
Subjects: Locks, Tim.; IS (Organization); Kurds;
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The ISIS hostage : one man's true story of 13 months in captivity / by Andersen, Puk Damsgård,author.; Young, David,translator.;
The ISIS Hostage details freelance photographer Daniel Rye's thirteen-month ordeal at the hands of Islamic State after he was captured in Syria and the misery inflicted upon him, and nineteen other hostages, by the British guards, which included Jihadi John. This compelling account also follows Daniel's family and the nerve-wracking negotiations with his kidnappers. It traces their horrifying journey through impossible dilemmas and offers a rare glimpse into the secret world of the investigation launched to locate and free not only Daniel, but also the American freelance journalist and fellow hostage James Foley.
Subjects: Biographies.; Rye, Daniel, 1989-; IS (Organization); Political kidnapping; Photojournalists; Hostages;
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Harpoon : inside the covert war against terrorism's money masters / by Darshan-Leitner, Nitsana,author.; Katz, Samuel M.,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels. ISIS boasted $2.4 billion of revenue in 2015, yet for too long the global war on terror overlooked financial warfare as an offensive strategy. "Harpoon," the creation of Mossad legend Meir Dagan, directed spies, soldiers, and attorneys to disrupt and destroy money pipelines and financial institutions that paid for the bloodshed perpetrated by Hamas, Hezbollah, and other groups. Written by an attorney who worked with Harpoon and a bestselling journalist, Harpoon offers a gripping story of the Israeli-led effort, now joined by the Americans, to choke off the terrorists' oxygen supply, money, via unconventional warfare --
Subjects: Intelligence service; Terrorism; Terrorism;
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Long shot : the inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS / by Azad,1983-author.;
"A gripping narrative by an Iran-born Kurdish journalist who joined the ranks of the Kurdish army as a sniper in the fight against ISIS. In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, Azad deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum, became a citizen, and learned English. But more than a decade later, having returned to the Middle East as a social worker in the wake of the Syrian civil war, Azad found that he would have to pick up a weapon once again. In September 2014, after twenty-four days of intensive training as a sniper, Azad became one of seventeen volunteer marksmen deployed by the Kurdish army when ISIS besieged the city of Kobani in Rojava, the newly autonomous region of the Kurds. In Long Shot, Azad tells the inside story of how the Kurdish forces fought nine months of bloody street battles against the Islamic State. Vastly outnumbered, the Kurds would have to kill the jihadis one by one, and Azad takes readers on a harrowing journey behind rebel frontlines to reveal the sniper unit's essential role in fighting, and eventually defeating, ISIS. Weaving the brutal events of war with personal and political reflection, Azad meditates on the incalculable price of victory--the permanent effects of war on the body and mind; the devastating death of two of his closest comrades; the loss of hundreds of volunteers who died in battle. But as Azad explains, these were sacrifices that saved not only a city but a people and their land. Rojava was freed, and ISIS, which once threatened the world, never fully recovered"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Azad, 1983-; People's Protection Units (Organization); IS (Organization); Snipers; Kurds;
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