The Terrorist Factory, Father Patrick Desbois
The Terrorist Factory, Father Patrick Desbois
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The Terrorist Factory
ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror

Author: Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, Lara Logan

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/03/2018


Synopsis

A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad–In Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes.With testimony drawn from more than 200 interviews with Yazidi survivors―girls, women, boys, and men―recorded during 11 investigative trips to refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan."If you read only one book on this subject, it should be this one.”―Lara Logan, 60 MinutesThe massacre of the Yazidi people by ISIS was nothing less than genocide. In refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, the authors brought a skilled team to interview more than a hundred ISIS survivors and document what they experienced and saw. These former slaves observed their torturers and know from the inside the secret facilities that ISIS has kept hidden from the world. What their testimony reveals is an organization whose ambition is power, regardless of their claim to be "soldiers of God." Their fighters are paid with sex, money, and the power of life and death over captives. Their promised paradise is here and now, not after death. Men who didn't swear allegiance were executed. Women became slaves for sex or reproduction, and their offspring may still serve the cause. In mobile training camps, the captured children were drugged, indoctrinated, and taught to shoot Kalashnikovs, plant explosives, and handle suicide vests. They are the intended products of the terrorist factory. In this taut, disturbing account, the authors document a utilitarian genocide that still holds an implicit threat to other counties, including those in the West.

About Father Patrick Desbois

Father Patrick Desbois is president of Yahad–In Unum and is the Braman Endowed Professor of the Practice of the Forensic Study of the Holocaust at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Holocaust by Bullets, winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award, and has received numerous honors for his groundbreaking work on the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Humanitarian Award from the US Holocaust Museum, the Lantos Human Rights Prize, and the Légion d'Honneur. He resides in Washington, DC, and Paris, France.

About Costel Nastasie

Costel Nastasie is the founder and president of Roma Dignity and has conducted research in association with Yahad in Unum on the deportation and genocide of the Roma. He now coordinates investigations in the Middle East. Originally from Romania, he now lives in Brussels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Troy on September 04, 2022

The interviews and research in this book is admiring considering the subject matter about ISIS and child abduction, genocide and sex slavery. This is a very heavy book and it's less than 200 pages. I would have given the book 5 stars however.. I think the book could have used some more chapters or pub......more

Goodreads review by Dan on February 11, 2025

This book strives to do an important and necessary work. So many Yazidis are still, to this day, dealing with the fallout from ISIS’s genocide perpetrated against them. It is vital to tell their story and let the world know. One line that still rings in my ears, “We are fine with blood being spilt,......more

Goodreads review by Louis on April 23, 2020

Very grim accounts from survivors of the Yazidi genocide about the horrors of living under ISIS.......more

Goodreads review by Brandy on August 02, 2018

Horrifying details from what ISIS is systematically doing to increase their power and range......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on December 20, 2018

Daunting insight into the sinister machinations of ISIS. Age old battle - masquerading as a zealous religious quest, but in actuality is nothing more than a twisted grasping to accumulation of power, sex and money masked by the obfuscation of religion. And behind that mask is ISIS. Compelling, simp......more