Jonathan Vincent’s Reviews > Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East > Status Update
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"One of the rebel groups [in Syria] was an Islamist outfit, Jabhat al-Nusra... Its leader was a Syrian who had fought the Americans in Iraq after 2003."
It really says a lot about the unexpectedness of Assad's fall that a book written only a few years ago gives the current president of Syria one line, and doesn't even say his name.
— Jun 26, 2025 10:14AM
It really says a lot about the unexpectedness of Assad's fall that a book written only a few years ago gives the current president of Syria one line, and doesn't even say his name.
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"The group's leader was a friend of Zarqawi and Baghdadi, and al-Nusra was acting as front for Baghdadi's grand project: a foothold in Syria."