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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Joby Warrick is a 2x Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author, and Middle East Expert. Since 1996, Joby has been at the Washington Post, where he currently serves as a National Security Reporter. His three books –– “The Triple Agent,” “Black Flags,” & “Red Line” (the second of which won him a Pulitzer Prize) –– are all Best-Sellers (links below).
“Black Flags” by Joby Warrick: https://amzn.to/3WdiGwp
“The Triple Agent” by Joby Warrick: https://amzn.to/3kgNvmu
“Red Line” by Joby Warrick: https://amzn.to/3XxTe5W
***TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Joby’s remembers his first Pulitzer Prize
6:08 - Joby explains his first book on the infamous 2009 Attack on CIA Base in Afghanistan
14:48 - The hot Jordanian Translator who got Joby into bomber’s house; No judgment journalism
26:13 - Homeland’s CIA accuracy; General McChrystal’s Iraqi kid story
35:51 - The CIA’s tracking of Bin Laden in the leadup to Sepp 011
38:55 - Joby’s Nucalear Weapons reporting during Iraq War; Building trust in Middle East
45:20 - Rogue translators & developing sources
50:32 - How to determine whether CIA sources are telling the truth
56:39 - The Tom O’Neill WAPO CIA source story
1:03:27 - King Abdullah II of Jordan; Jordan & its role in the Middle East
1:13:28 - Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, The Founder of ISIS; The murder of Nick Berg
1:20:50 - Al Zarqawi’s radicalization in prison
1:24:29 - Al Zarqaqi meets Bin Laden; CIA & Zarqawi’s early standoffs
1:29:50 - King Abdullah told President Bush NOT to invade Iraq; Sectarian Violence (Sunnis & Shiites)
1:36:36 - Al Qaeda makes Al Zarqawi a franchisee; Iraq’s implosion post-invasion
1:41:30 - Nada Bakos - CIA’s chief Al Zarqawi targeter; How the US merked Al Zarqawi
1:46:33 - ISIS vs. ISIL naming; Al Baghdadi succeeds Al Zarqawi
1:50:19 - The Arab Spring of 2011; Al Nusra in Syria; ISIS leadership doesn’t do dirty work
1:56:22 - When did ISIS come on Joby’s radar?
2:01:05 - Caliphate explained; the brutality of ISIS
2:05:49 - The Kurds; 20th Century European Agreements that led to Middle East violence
2:14:04 - Strongman leaders; Bashar Al-Assad & Syria
2:21:43 - The Yazidi Genocide
2:26:56 - How the US neutralized ISIS
2:35:12 - The US Drone Program; The War in Yemen
2:42:37 - What’s happening in Iran right now?
2:48:32 - Iran’s race to a nuclear weapon
2:52:46 - Israel’s new far-right government
2:56:52 - The Jordanian Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat); The Laurence Foley hit
3:00:34 - Joby’s Middle East schedule; Joby’s upcoming book project
Intro Credits:
“Homeland” (Showtime)
“The Looming Tower” (Hulu)
“Body of Lies” (2008)
“Munich” (2005)
“The Physician” (2013)
“Zero Dark Thirty” (2012)
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