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Reza Kahlili, “Iran General: Our Ultimate Goal Is the Destruction of America and Israel,” Daily Caller, January 5, 2015,
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/05/iran-general-our-ultimate-goal-is-the-destruction-of-america-and-israel/
.

55
.
    
Raphael Ahren, “With Iran Secure as a Threshold State, Has Israel Failed?” Times of Israel, November 24, 2014,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/since-iran-is-and-will-remain-a-threshold-state-has-netanyahu-failed/
.

56
.
    
Krishnadev Calamur, “Obama’s Iran Remarks Labeled Conciliatory, Naive,” NPR, December 31, 2014,
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/31/374197687/obamas-iran-remarks-labeled-conciliatory-naive
.

57
.
    
Missy Ryan and Loveday Morris, “The U.S. and Iran Are Aligned in Iraq against the Islamic State—for Now,”
Washington Post,
December 27, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-us-and-iran-are-aligned-in-iraq-against-the-islamic-state—for-now/2014/12/27/353a748c-8d0d-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html
.

58
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“Iran Hits Back at Criticism over Executions,” Al Jazeera, November 1, 2014,
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/11/iran-hits-back-at-criticism-over-executions-2014111111452853492.html
.

59
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Rowan Scarborough, “Islamic State Launches Social Media Campaign to Unleash ‘City Wolves,’”
Washington Times,
January 13, 2015,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/13/islamic-state-launches-new-jihad-kill-westerners-h/
.

60
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Mary Grace Lucas, “ISIS Nearly Made It to Baghdad Airport, Top U.S. Military Leader Says,” CNN, October 13, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/politics/isis-baghdad-martin-dempsey/
.

61
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Damien Sharkov, “ISIS Use Video of Captured Pilot to Force Jordan to Halt Airstrikes,”
Newsweek,
January 8, 2015,
http://www.newsweek.com/isis-use-video-captured-pilot-force-jordan-halt-airstrikes-297827
.

62
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Saud Mehsud, “Pakistani Soldier Beheaded by Afghan, Pakistani IS Supporters: Video,” Yahoo! News, January 11, 2015,
http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-soldier-beheaded-afghan-pakistani-supporters-video-133821178.html
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63
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Adam Withnall, “Syria, Iraq . . . and Now Afghanistan: ISIS Advance Enters Helmand Province for the First Time, Afghan Officials Confirm,”
Independent
(UK), January 13, 2015,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-iraq-and-now-afghanistan-isis-advance-enters-helmand-province-for-the-first-time-afghan-officials-confirm-9974304.html
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64
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Dan Lamothe, “U.S. Military Social Media Accounts Apparently Hacked by Islamic State Sympathizers,”
Washington Post,
January 12, 2015,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/12/centcom-twitter-account-apparently-hacked-by-islamic-state-sympathizers/
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65
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Aminu Abubakar and Faith Karimi, “2,000 Feared Killed in ‘Deadliest’ Boko Haram Attack in Nigeria,” CNN, January 12, 2015,
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/09/africa/boko-haram-violence/
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INDEX

60 Minutes,
66
,
68

9/11 attacks,
22
,
27
,
68
,
71
,
74
,
95
,
104
,
133–34
,
166
,
189
,
192
,
206

2014 World Cup,
116

A

Aarhus,
174–75

Abbas, Mahmoud,
184

Abbou, Mustapha,
157

ABC News,
24

Abdel Bary, Abdel-Majed,
114
,
126
,
129
,
149

“Abdullah” (interviewed by author),
104–5

“Abdullah” (Twitter user),
118–19

Abousamra, Ahmad,
122

“Abudurahman,”
157

Abu Ghraib prison,
32

Abusalha, Moner Mohammad,
67–68

Adebolajo, Michael,
113
,
136

Afghanistan,
17
,
27
,
76
,
79
,
127
,
136
,
176
,
203

Africa,
14–15
,
49–50
,
183

African Americans,
3
,
94
,
115

African Embassy bombings,
126

Ahmed, Abu,
29

Ahmed, Shirwa,
2

Aicha (Dutch woman),
157–58

Ain Shams University,
128

airstrikes,
26
,
31
,
41–42
,
44
,
47–49
,
53
,
55
,
112
,
163
,
199

AK-47s,
19
,
89
,
91
,
110
,
148

al-Adnani, Abu Mohammad,
71
,
73
,
76

al-Amriki, Abu Mansoor,
125–26

al-Anbari, Abu Ali,
54

Al-Aqsa Mosque,
185

al-Assad, Bashar,
9
,
21
,
33–34
,
129
,
196

al-Awlaki, Anwar,
87
,
96
,
121
,
123

Al-Azhar University,
106
,
192–94

al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr,
28
,
40
,
54–55
,
82
,
134
,
141

     
as Abu Du’a,
28

     
and beginning of ISIS,
33–34

     
as caliph,
12–13
,
54
,
92
,
96
,
101
,
104
,
134
,
138
,
141

     
as “the invisible sheikh,”
30

     
real name of Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarra,
28

     
“rise of,”
28–33

al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar,
28

Albania,
14
,
165

al-Banna, Hassan,
14
,
105

Aleppo,
18
,
35
,
123

al-Fahd, Nasir,
83

al-Faqih, Saad,
144

Al Farooq Youth & Family Center mosque,
4–5

Algeria,
22
,
50
,
167

al-Golani, Abu Mohammed,
33–35

“al-Hesbah” force,
54

Ali, Abu,
30–31

Ali, Afsor,
136

Al Jazeera,
121
,
153

al-Khansaa Brigade,
89–90

Allah,
60
,
68
,
74
,
87
,
91
,
96
,
102
,
110
,
116–17
,
134
,
138–39
,
149
,
171
,
178
,
192–93

“Allahu Akbar,”
31
,
66
,
70
,
96
,
148
,
156
,
172
,
177

al-Maliki, Nouri,
40

al-Muhajir, Abu Hamza,
28

al-Muhajiroun,
133–34
,
137
,
151

al-Nusra Front,
33–35
,
67
,
79
,
187
,
196

al Qaeda,
13
,
27
,
29
,
32
,
34
,
47
,
77
,
88
,
105
,
110
,
122
,
125–26
,
130
,
133–34
,
144
,
172
,
186–87
,
194
,
196–97
,
200

     
clerics of,
87
,
96
,
144
,
168

     
and ISIS,
14
,
16–17
,
39
,
70
,
105
,
123
,
130

     
and Islamic caliphate,
14
,
189

     
leader of,
34
,
125
,
129

     
terror groups related to,
2
,
6
,
67
,
69
,
79
,
125
,
187
,
196

     
twenty-year plan of,
35–36

     
and the U.S.,
22–25
,
123
,
191

al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
123

al Qaeda in Iraq (al Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers),
27
,
31
,
56–57
,
120
,
122
.
See also
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)

al-Qaradawi, Yusuf,
106
,
168–69

al-Shabaab,
2
,
4
,
6
,
69–70
,
125

al-Shishani, Abu Omar,
55
.
See also
Batirashvili, Tarkhan

al-Sirri, Yasser,
144

al-Sisi, Abdel Fattah,
192–96

al-Turkmani, Abu Muslim,
54

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab,
26–28
,
34

al-Zawahiri, Ayman,
34
,
118
,
125
,
129
,
144

al-Zawra,
90–91

America

     
American terror recruits,
2–3
,
5–10
,
40
,
61
,
65–72
,
78–79
,
89
,
95
,
101
,
107
,
116
,
118
,
121–26
,
130
,
144
,
165
,
204–6

     
American victims of terrorism,
7
,
21–22
,
36
,
42
,
45–47
,
72
,
97
,
101
,
103
,
112
,
114
,
116
,
120
,
126
,
146
,
185–86

Amnesty International,
59

amputations,
12
,
52
,
139

Amsterdam,
92
,
156
,
158–60

Anbar province,
28
,
47
,
52
,
78
,
202

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (ABM),
49
,
186

Anti-Defamation League (ADL),
66

anti-Semitism,
105
,
161–62
,
169
,
177–78
,
184
,
193–94
,
201

Arab-Americans,
2

Arabian desert,
12
,
128

Arabic (language),
2
,
7
,
38
,
56
,
63
,
72
,
83
,
87
,
106
,
110
,
117
,
120–21
,
128

Arabs,
15
,
50
,
72
,
129
,
187
,
192

Arab Spring,
15
,
160

Arsal,
35

Arvada,
85–87

Asia,
15
,
49–50
,
97
,
145
,
148

Assyria,
39
,
56

Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal,
14

Austin, Lloyd J., III,
24

Australia,
18
,
47
,
70–71
,
73–74
,
76
,
139
,
163–64
,
205

Austria,
91
,
164

B

Baathist party,
32
,
54

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