th% the ma thile conversatiorat thile conversatiorat l us to get publishing moods, r whee, bling updates, behind te r wenes prtuaskre and are nidct. author information and you can talk directly with others during ? socebooup.com/book tv. >> so i was covering the syria crisis from more or less iugh s er of 2011, long before there is any isis presence in syria or at least acknowledged at this dehere are preseibe. i got to know a lot of the opposition, which in the beginning was peaceful micotesters and act deislly . when it b ki iue an arms rebelln against the assad regime i began

doing reporting from the border meeting with rvelsugees and rebers theyou have to understand southern turkey has become a ters for this revolution in rt haellion. in the summer of 2012, it was ramadan, i went into with a free bewrian a% ust as thediyat ciion , or parlly of the city northeastern quadrants were liberated from the assad regimbl i spent the nageht in a t me.n about one hour's drive of the city. i stayed with a family, the owner of the house was a switcun rebel, i spent the nage t there and so did other journalists at my acquaintance. it was extraold minary extrof tld mina% ãthi ki spse i hays seen firstht is one thing to be on the new york times or cwere l nc images broadcast from thousands of ullles awa qu you really have to see it for yourself to understand what is the dri neng force b agind this rt haellion. it was amazing, at night these

rebels put down their guns, piatered up white gbasves, and usrbibee to a gs and were cleag the rubble from the streets. the assad government was bombarding c deel.ues ing fo infrastrficaskres thethues . acy targeted the hospital in the town so any activists, civiliaio are injured or baysly wounded cawere lot be treated. it was extraordinary. they turned a mosque into a makeshift hoin tital and imported all of e eqmipment in there. they were treating everyone, treating everyone, militi iuen ther% pro-griaer theirent fiing ttersf n wally with switcues n rebels. i know that may sound propagandistic but i saw that with my oof s s. about f dee or six months later the town i stayed in had gone to isis. it it was completely tnd n riaer. the house i stated is not controlled by isis, the family i stayed with fled the country, thues . went to turcu qu

so i watched in real ts ofe this generation, what started out as a noble and dignified rebellion ibewing fot a b covtal totalita% griaer theirenriae like many revolutions it had become a parallel image of what it as ofed to rej kiriae ebel co- spthor is actually a syrian national who comes from a town of the eastern province of bewria. to put this in context, this is a gat ncrl town between syria and iraq which for the better part of ten years was in better part of ten years was in a tne ae qupoint for alin iraq, the jihadist group that is now known as isis. it sort of has a relatioing fohs being a war as off l pasths if you know texas you know the cartel. so it has a are neryf xpanded f iuel.y neit work in this rlesiouall sor

the purpose of doing this book without, we are not going to write a book about isis, you have to understand the nature of an enemy if you have any desire to defeat it. so we got these inter ne ncs with a lot of fage ters, at the lower ranking levels, but more but more important than that their soullly members. how come a gs s with a 16-year-old boy who is studying chemical engineering, or, or el kitrrtualf ngineering wanting to l dee in the west, decide to cast his lot with a bunch of head locking barto a rians. whas the dri neng m kihanism b agind this. the purpose of writing the book is to try to explain, by no ustify but g dee an accohipt of the arise of this terror army. by last geographic oculus it contror rouing tly the size of great britain. the other purpose i should add, i did a lot of media in june of 2014 when isis sto% it i the mn asurated ional inherent

result. the question i kept getting asked on tv was, where do they come from? how do theyf me20e from n me.here? it sounded like the most ups are question i have ever heald m. in the book we srl, imayou hne it s 1985 and the vietcong has conquered one third of southeast asia. esuhey dode t call thed lves the neetcong, there srling where did they come from, they are on scribble and unknoo to us. isis scribble and unknoo to us. isis be o qun soun until now. they have been a primary enemy and target of the united states. and as i lcans in rlesiouall ust change their branching, their marketing, and their stratlesy hasf readilved in a dire and sophistrtuated matter which makes it all the greater to defeat. a lot of this book is a work of histor qu we go back to thef arly origins of the terrorist organization, the founder, the who went into a rack a, wer the

coalition cahave awmu in afghanistan. he fled and then went to iraq and essentially set up this or usnilesition. it did not staleve as an al qaea franchise but became one after a series of spectacular terros is% attac med. ^ bually acking the united natia jordanian embassy. we wanted to give the average readepur let's soce it we are all, we all have ta20ets on her back. these guys, they would bond this book festistudl on do afrom athg can to tyou hnd ed, humiliate, and abase the united states. and franklyf veyou hn c deel.is.ed cohiptry in the world and not so ci nelized. this is a broad history but it culminates and what i think is in-depth rquorting of who these kitys are and what they want. >> you can watch this and other ãon my netbook to be.o20.

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