Joby Warrick is a best-selling author and a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he served for 24 years with the Post’s national and investigative staffs, reporting from Washington and scores of cities around the world. He is the author of three two nonfiction books, including “The Triple Agent”, a New York Times best-seller about a CIA operation in Afghanistan; "Red Line", and “Black Flags”, a narrative account of the personalities and events that gave rise to the Islamic State. “Black Flags” was listed as one of the best books of 2015 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other publications, and it was the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
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TIMESTAMPS
01:35 The most surprising thing about ISIS
03:30 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
06:45 Afghanistan after the Soviet Union
08:00 Zarqawi in al-Jafr prison
10:05 Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
13:00 Al-Qaida of Iraq, and Zarqawi’s weaponization of religion
17:30 Black Flags
20:00 The US invasion of Iraq
28:00 Big pause after Zarqawi
31:50 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the Rise of ISIS
38:00 A typical ISIS Fighter
40:30 New ISIS
43:10 Roots of Islamic Radicalization
47:00 Joby’s books
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